Satsang Metaphors : Why ? Why ? Why?

I was saying yesterday, this need to ascribe to either meaning or meaninglessness is very prevalent in a way to the human condition. You have to put everything in the box. So either it has this meaning, or in the boxes, 'Oh, this is meaningless.' It is these boxes which we supposedly have used to answer the question 'Why?' which have built a box around us. And one of the most favorite ones, in fact, behind all 'Why?' in some ways, is like, 'Oh, why not?'

From our limited perspective, we cannot fathom the magnificence of this. We cannot even fathom what to exist means. What does it mean to exist or not? But you want to fathom a lot after existence: 'How do I do something? Why does this have happened?' But all of that is after existence. So we don't know the basic foundation from our limited position as the mind, but we try to gather a lot of answers. And a collection of all of these answers is what we call a person. What is a person? Just a collection of all these answers that we've used to define ourselves in some way. That which we call the belief system or conditioning is just what we think we know.

And even now the mind can be at it, saying, 'Yeah, yeah, but let's get real. Hey, let's get more practical. This is how it is.' The Master is saying everything is the horn of a hare; all of that is fantasy, fairy tale stuff. 'Let's get real with this.' And we start to believe that that is our experience, and that's why we feel like that is valid. But if you really check on your experience without trying to get to an answer, you will see that it's not true. Your experience is not that of separation.