The inner and the outer

The inner and the outer.

When you say that a feeling came from within, what do you mean?

Probably you mean that your mind presented a feeling based on your inner activities, as you take them to be, your thoughts, your impressions, feelings. And the reason you call it inner, probably, is because you take the mind to be the manifestation of the operating brain that is in your head.

So similar to the outer, the perception of outer, you take the body to be the contour. Anything that is outside of the body line is external and anything that is inside of it, which includes the mind, is internal. Is it so? Is it is it the way you look at it?

And let's assume that it is the case which is normally and almost totally the only understanding that human beings have. Then, question, watch, could there be a feeling, let's say intuition, that is not originated by your mind, by your will, experience, knowledge, patterns of thinking, responses?

As if landed from nowhere, presented in the mind, but did not come from the mind.

And I don't think it's hard to see, but it's up to you. I don't know where you look. But if you see it, then, was this feeling truly ‘come from within’ or you just saw it in your mind? But you cannot really say that it was originated in the mind.

If that is too abstract to you, you can even start with seeing that when you are in the present of other people, and let's say someone is very stressed, the activity of that person as a mind touches you, then you create your own activities as a response.

But the fact is that something came from what you take to be outside and came in and generate inner activity. So I truly question, I truly question if that common perception of inner and outer is at all valid.

It seems to me that it is very naive, very lazy, and very ignorant perception. So I question it. But where do I question it? When I say I question it within myself, what do I mean? I play with ideas. I match what I say to what I believe, to what I know. Or do I simply look at the vast, infinite space, sky of the whole universe and the question is there, not made by me, not dependent on me to ask it. It was there before I asked, it will stay after I will ask.

And in that question, the only thing that is seen is that there is no outer and inner. The question is not inside any boundary or outside of any box or limit or...

And that's the beauty of questioning unconditionally, for no reason, without knowing.

It's a way of living. It's an invitation to see without knowing.