Nadpis

By Gita Saraydarian

The Teaching says that it is not the fact of asking questions that is important, but the content, the intent, the way we frame it subtly that is the key. The underlying reason should be to establish a dialogue with our Inner Essence. It is not one question and one answer, but an ongoing relationship. We ask and we listen to an answer. Then we ask a follow-up, and then clarify what we thought we heard. We continue back and forth until we are able to understand the answers and the follow-up questions that we need to be asking.

I did not fully understand this process until one day, just about a month before Dad passed away, I visited him at his bedside. I was holding back my grief and sense of impending loss. I kept saying to myself that he is not gone yet, so it was not appropriate to start grieving; better wait and get some things cleared up first while there is still some time left. I wanted to be sure I asked all the right questions, had all the answers given to me, and I was “ready.” I wanted a set of answers that I could count on. I thought that my main issues revolved around finding the right ways to continue editing and preparing manuscripts for publishing.