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I have spent the last few days trying to understand what this word truly means

The root meaning of the word is to seek after

But what am seeking after?

Do I inquiring into something trying to find the answer?

Before inquiring do I need to know or have a sense of what I’m going to find?

Well that’s not inquiring truly.

That’s programmatic questioning

So I went deep and deeper

I spent all day, searching for an answer, why?

Because there has to be a true meaning of inquiring that it is undeniably true.

So what is it?

Then I realized something.

What if inquiring truly means to question something not hoping to have an answer?

Or to search for something not knowing what you will find

What kind of mental state is that?

Is that mental state even possible?

That’s when I realized it

Inquiring means the search for what’s not there, the questioning without not knowing.

But the questions that hit me was

How can you know what you don’t know?

How can you use what you know to find what you don’t know?

You can find what you know by remembering. Simple.

But how can you find what you don’t know?

Do you use the mental state of knowing to look for what you don’t know?

See the inequality

Any mathematical equation will tell you that 2 does not equal 3

So if you want to dive into what you don’t know, you need to have a "don’t know” mind.

Drop all your knowledge, forget who you are, put it aside. Act like a baby who just came to this world.

Then you will enter into the field of the unknown.

From there you question what you don’t know.

I see so many people in society trying to reach for something

And I look at them and I feel like they are going to path that has an end

And of course I ended up being right

The fulfillment happens but then it is not enough

Like someone who’s trying to reach a level

They get it the level and realize there’s no level

All of this things J Krisnamurti has been talking about it for years

K has realized this since he was almost 20 or 30 years.

And this is bizarre and also scary for K

He was living in a world in which he was the only one who truly understood life and was eager to dive into it without having chains of knowledge preventing further exploration into it

At the same time, this should serve as a warning to all of us who are in this journey

You are going to feel more isolated then ever because there is not a lot of people who are eager to explore life like you are

What’s desire?

Wanting something that it is not there.

So the thought jumps him, and gives you what you want in that moment.

However, the issue is that thought needs to work itself to give you the illusion of having what you want.

Then when it gives you what you want. But it needs to be constantly thinking about it so you "feel" you have it.

However, you are going into loop of thought for the benefit of having constant desire. So you gonna want more and more.

But what’s wrong with that?

Nothing.

It is just dissipation of energy.

Thought needs energy to operate itself. And it is not using that energy to give you want, and by doing that, it is also keeping itself alive. Because thought needs to operate, it has its own "body".

But thought, who’s constantly thinking about desire is harming you without knowing it is harming you.

That’s why it is important for you to see thought for what thought is.

A reactive engine loop that doesn’t have a fixed pattern. It is dynamically choosing its own pattern of thinking.

Linear thinking, circular thinking,etc are patterns that thought uses intelligently to operate depending on the situation, and the materials it has in front of it.

So trying to be beat thought, it is like trying to beat someone who has all the data about you and it knows you, like trying to beat your own hand.