Beyond the Window

“Questions tune the soul. The purpose behind questions is to initiate the quest.”

"Beyond the window" is a term used when talking about how movies use their 3D effects.

And "beyond the window" refers to the depth of the revealed world. Warcraft did this beautifully, with layers of life and information.

Everything still looked small, but it was all there. A window into another world.

Rather than meteors and ash and swords flying at you, "beyond the window" is about dissolving in to something. Is about inviting you in to a more immersive experience. In to an expanded awareness.

No matter the questions's content,

no matter the size of its scope,

to ask is to seek and to seek leads, in its own unique way, to more seeking.

That's all. And in a life of aggressive stimuli swirling like a maelstrom that tears us six ways at once, to be on the path at all means that you're on the path. It means the road to awakening. But to what?

To what harms, what drains, what saps, what leeches, what lies, what takes advantage - to seeing the parasite of fear, the darkness, the devil, the hungry ghost, the monster of self-hate and doubt.

To ask questions is to live a life that is just a little more mythic.

And myths bring tools and triumphs, adventure and purpose, love and meaning and more.

There is a story - oft retold - titled The Fisher King.

It concerns a blind king, a dying land, the search for healing, a discovery of the world's wounding, and questions. A young knight journeys out for hope and glory, and - we'll not call it fate, only his path - brings him to a feast where he witnesses wonders.

But, too afraid of appearing impolite, he lets them pass by.

Mind mayhaps abuzz with confusion and curiosity,

still he stifles the impulse and eats in quiet as sights unimagined appear before him,

plain as the food upon his plate.

Later, he is condemned for his quiet. You see, the questions would have spurred his transformation.

Heralding respect and maturity, a wider awareness, they would have revealed to him the healing he sought. Except he was not ready. As a a man, a knight, a guest, a pilgrim, a wanderer, or as a a hume on this broad-backed planet Earth.

And it is a long, rough road he roves for the years thereafter,

despite the possibility that he didn't even know the questions that he might've asked.

Perhaps he believed there were proper questions and proper acts,

and he was just too arrogant to surrender mind and might to heart and soul.

It is only much later in his story,

with the wear of wisdom on his spirit and the weep of rain and wind on his body,

that he learns the questions.

And yet, after all that, perhaps the deepest lesson of the amalgamation of mythic fragments and medieval symbols that make up story of The Fisher King is the peace and true healing that come from clear seeing's aching reveal: that no question can encapsulate a universe's mystery, and no answer can satisfy a single seeking spirit.

In the end there are no questions. There is only the encounter consciousness and consciousness, and an honest response that speaks so loudly that the stars hear it clear. A response that says:

I see you here. And while we are together, because you are suffering, I will ease your suffering.

The Fisher King

As retold by Robin Williams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN3bcE7ldHg