Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

Who is asking the questions

I would say that there is a questioner, but it is not a person, and that contemplating the question 'who is the questioner' can lead to a major realization. It may be imagined that the questioner is a person, but that which is asking the question is neither a person nor imaginary. The realization of who/what the questioner IS is earth-shatteringly powerful. This is why Ramana recommended that koan to people. If the resolution of the question were trivial, then Ramana would have been a fool to recommend it, but he was not a fool.