Proceeding from What

(This is an exercise in thought and analysis.  Proceed only with caution.)


All Questions proceed from what? Exactly. All Questions proceed from What.

In the beginning there was What. Before Who and Why, there was What. Before When and Where, before How and How Much, there was What. What is the perfect whole from which all other questions flow.

In the beginning there was Prime, that which is. Prime, the first, the indivisible1 whole. Prime, whose essence was “I am.”2 Prime is the Truth of Truths, the first principle from which all other principles derive, the truth and principle of Existence itself. From Prime does the first Noble Truth come… All that is… is. Yet from Prime comes the first Question, What. If I am, what am I? Prime was unable to answer this, for all that Prime was, was I. Prime existed to exist. Prime was without limits and indivisible. Prime was all that was. Clearly more questions would be needed.

So Prime became two, The Duality of Who and Why. The first was the truth of Identity the second of Causality. Identity said, If I am, then Who am I? while Causality asked, If I am, then Why am I? Yet What remained, and asked of itself, “Which of these am I?”, for Which is the lesser form of What, that form which arises out a limited field of choices. And so the Duality became a Trinity. From those three arose the questions of Locality and Methodology and so three became six, that most perfect of numbers, for Six is product of its sums and for so many other reasons as well.

So there were six questions.

What is my Nature? What is my Purpose? What is my Origin? What is my Task? What is my Location? And Which of these is the most important? Yet Prime, in asking these questions, had begun to perceive that each question not only spawned more questions, but each question had an existence of its own and was separate from all the others, so that each question had both an internal awareness and an external awareness, so that in fact there were twelve questions, adding those above to those below; What is their Nature, their Purpose, their Origin, their Task, their Location, and Are they more important than I?

All thought proceeds from questions, and of all questions these are the most basic. Six selfish, six selfless, yet intermixed and codependent. Six Noble Truths and Six Ignoble Truths, twelve basic things that must be known and acknowledged.

The Six Noble Truths are stated thus:
1. The Universe Exists, The Universe is Truth.
2. There is nothing that Exists that is Outside of the Universe
3. You Exist, thus You are part of the Universe
4. You are Aware, thus The Universe is Aware
5. The Collective awareness of the Universe, is Prime… or, if you really must, God.
6. The Universe does not know why it is here, and is seeking that knowledge. Your purpose is figure out your own Truth, in an effort to answer the ultimate question.

The Six Ignoble Truths are stated thus:
1. The Universe, as a Whole, does not care about you, any more than you care about your individual electrons.
2. In the Grand Scheme of things, you are unimportant… as is the entire human race, the entire Planet Earth, the entire Sol System, and in fact, the entire Milky-Way Galaxy.
3. You cannot communicate with Prime. Prime cannot communicate with You.
4. It is impossible for anyone to understand exactly how the Universe functions, or why, or where it ultimately came from, and any effort to do so is both useless and doomed to failure.
5. The existence of the Universe is significantly more impossible than its non-existence.
6. There are at least two sides to every truth, and many more sides to every falsehood.

In the end, we must conclude The Ultimate Truth: None of the Noble Truths help and None of the Ignoble Truths matter.