Is "looking for the answer" the same as questioning?
š: I can see in your notes that you're "looking for the answer," but what is the question, exactly?
š¦: "Why?"
š: Why what?
š¦: Why everything.
š: I think you know that "why," or more precisely "why everything" are not questions that have an answer.
š¦: The question is the answer I'm looking for.
š: You're looking for the answer, and the answer is a question, so what will happen when you find what you're looking for?
š¦: Nothing.
š: Why?
š¦: I thought "why" was a question that doesn't have an answer.
š: Don't be pedantic.
š¦: If I find what I'm looking for, then all the fun will have stopped. The story ends, everything is in order, and there is no more movement.
š: And this is "nothing" to you?
š¦: Well, it all seems rather obvious and pointless to me. It's not what I desire. So, if I find what I'm looking for, I must be mistaken, and I must continue to look.
š: Are you actually looking for something?
š¦: If I were blind, I would still be questing. I believe that I'm lacking something, but this lack is irresolvable. To be me, I cannot be complete.
š: Don't you want to be happy?
š¦: Can I not be incomplete and happy?
š: Well, are you really happy if you're lacking something? If you're hungry, tired, or whatever, this lack is which defines you?
š¦: Desire is an illusion. I've been very happy and hungry, very happy and tired, very happy and me. Existence is more complex than a mathematical sum of feelings.
š: If desire is an illusion, why do you look for what you're looking for?
š¦: Out of habit.