Book: Sceptical spirituality
What’s the point of it all ?
Doing your spiritual homework #6
What’s the point ? What’s life and experience all about ? What’s it all for ?
These questions — or something like them — need to form the basis of any serious metaphysical inquiry. And if the metaphysical inquiry is to turn into a genuine metaphysical quest, you have to find a way to formulate these questions in such a way that they mean something to you directly. They have to become your questions, in a very immediate and meaningful sense.
And the strength of your questioning should never be weakened by a sense of self-satisfaction or achievement; questioning should always be invoked as the great destroyer of self-delusion. You can even ask ‘What’s the point of asking what’s the point ?’ to bring the mind to the position where it cannot supply any more comforting imagery, and finds itself lost and defeated. The questions beg for an answer, but none is forthcoming. Why ? Why do you find yourself on a precipice, with nothing to hold on to ? Look at that situation, and ask yourself, what’s going on ? What the hell is going on ? Look again, keep looking at where you are. Perhaps it might feel as if you can’t seem to find yourself, and you get lost in a kind of confusion. Why ? Why can’t you find yourself ? Which bit of…
