Mystery, Importance of

[Etude in B Minor]

I think pursuing mystery is the most important activity humans can do. I don't think the mystery lies in creating your own reality or the discovery of something previously unknown to the creator.

Rather, I think that the mystery lies in, as the Zen masters say, "what is this?". The first step to contacting infinity is to realize the most obvious of facts that there really is something. The question is "what is it?" That is the mystery. It's really there and most of us don't notice our own existence or don't treat it as anything of importance. But it is startlingly and outstandingly profound and amazing once you realize it. Only then do you appreciate that there is a truly unfathomable and intractable mystery.

Words are of little use in dealing with this (the) mystery, apart from clarifying what it is not. As far as I can tell, and have learned in my studies, the only way to proceed is to experience this "what it is" transparently and "livingly". That is what my meditation consists of these days. This can be done anywhere, and is difficult like the proverbial grasping of a greased pig in a bowling alley. But I'm getting there...