QUESTIONS

Á young scholar approached the Teacher and said, “I agree that staying within the confines of my own community and tradition is stifling, but where do I begin?”

“By asking questions,” the Teacher replied.

“What kind of questions?”

“If human beings have discovered anything new, it was always by breaking boundaries and daring to ask two necessary questions,” the Teacher replied.

“The first is – Why? And the second – Why not? When you ask these, the How follows.”

FOCUS

One day some visitors talked about a common friend who was given six months to live and four years later was still alive but a very changed man.

The Teacher noted that contemplation of one’s death can give one a radically new perspective on life. “A driver’s mind gets very focused when he realizes he is being followed by a police car!”