There're many questions of how, what, when, where, and why that you may want to ask regarding what is happening in your daily life.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, a German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer, once said: "There are no foolish questions, and no one becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions."
So, seeking relevant answers to the questions asked will sharpen the thinking mind over the long haul. It's also important to live in the presence of every question asked and to be patient with all those questions that can't be answered right away. True enlightenment may one day come when you're asking fewer or even no more questions because by then you may have already got all the answers--that may be the ultimate "self-enlightenment" of your thinking mind through asking questions and seeking answers.
"From knowing to not knowing
This is superior.
From not knowing to knowing
This is sickness.
It is by being sick of sickness
that one is not sick.
The sage is not sick.
Because he is sick of sickness
Therefore, he is not sick."
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 71
Living by faith: God is infinite, and humans are finite. That explains "why" we should obey and trust the "inexplicable" from God.
Stephen Lau
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