T. 27. IV. 5 – 7. Jesus: “A pseudo-question has no answer. It dictates the answer even as it asks. Thus is all questioning within the world a form of propaganda for the world. Just as the body’s witnesses are but the senses from within itself, so are the answers to the questions of the world contained within the questions that are asked. Where answers merely represent the question, they add nothing new and nothing has been learned.
An honest question is a learning tool that asks for something that you do not know. It does not set conditions for response, but merely asks what the response should be. But no one in a chosen state of conflict is free to ask this question, simply because he does not want an honest answer that would lead to where the conflict ends.
Only within the holy instant can an honest question honestly be asked. And from the meaning of the question does the meaningfulness of the answer come. Here is it possible to separate your wishes from the answer, so it can be given you and also be received. The answer is provided everywhere. Yet it is only here it can be heard!
An honest answer asks no sacrifice because it answers questions truly asked. The questions of the world but ask of whom is sacrifice demanded, asking not if sacrifice is meaningful at all. And so, unless the answer tells ‘of whom,’ the sacrifice will remain unrecognized, unheard, and thus the question is preserved intact because it gave the answer to itself.
The holy instant is the interval in which the mind is still enough to hear an answer that is not entailed within the question asked. It offers something new and different from the content of the question. How could the question be answered if it but repeats itself?
Therefore, attempt to solve no problems in a world from which the answer has been barred. But bring the problem to the only place that lovingly holds the answer for you. Here are the answers that will solve your problems because they stand apart from them, and see what can be answered; what the question is.
Therefore, attempt to solve no problems in a world from which the answer has been barred. But bring the problem to the only place that lovingly holds the answer for you. Here are the answers that will solve your problems because they stand apart from them, and see what can be answered; what the question is.
Within the world all answers merely raise another question, though they leave the first unanswered. In the holy instant, you can bring the question to the answer, and receive the answer that was made for you.”