The Answer Isn't the Answer: On Finding the Right Questions

We are born. We barely know how to walk. We can barely converse or talk....

And the Quest begins.

It starts with an innocent

A for ? B for ?...... and then gradually.......

We amass degrees, devour books, and scour the internet, believing that if we just learn more, the truth will reveal itself. Answers are what we seek. In fact the entire educational system hinges on our ability to answer questions. The better you are at answering questions, the system rewards you with better grades.

Our quest to become smarter and more literate is rooted in a fundamental blind spot: we aren't fully aware of the super advanced technology that makes us capable of consciousness and life. We either ignore, take for granted or look down on this"technology" that existed eons before us.

Many of us fall prey to a misplaced belief that man is smarter than nature and it is he who has power over it . As a result not only do we not grasp its complexity, we try to fix it, repair it and improve it!

We trust our ' Schooling system' and believe that certifications are necessary for mastery of subjects.

We take certifications so seriously that if one is not certified, they can't even decide as to how they would want to treat their own disease, or formulate their own medicines, even care for, handle and educate their own children!

But what if we have it backwards?

 Two simple, uneducated, non certified cells - the gametes- come together and create a marvel that is a conscious AI - us. Each uniquely handcrafted and built by non certified, non schooled simple cells !

Nature has been so kind that it has pre-answered and fulfilled every need for our survival. Our life is filled with answers!

Do we need an answer to see the vibrant hues of a sunset? Do we need an answer for our hearts to beat their rhythmic cadence? Do we need an answer to help us capture precious moments, or for our muscles to contract and carry us forward?

The profound truth is, we don't. These answers are pre-given, a magnificent inheritance. We can walk, talk, see, and hear. Our cells communicate in a silent, intricate ballet. Everything functions with a perfection that humbles our finest engineering. The entire experience of nature—both the world within us and the world around us—has been optimized for the best possible user experience. The system is not just running; it is flourishing.

So how can we become more knowledgeable, when we are the most advanced work of nature?

We don't need to invent the principles; we need to understand them. Newton did not have to create a force. Rather he positioned an appropriate question and paired it with an answer - gravity. An answer that existed long before the question was asked!

So, if the fundamental answers are already here, woven into the fabric of existence, what is left for us to find?

The paradox is that the answer we seek is, in fact, a question. Not just any question, but one that unlocks the 'wow' hidden within these pre-given solutions. It is a question that ignites a sense of wonder-and from that wonder, a deeper, more humble line of inquiry is born.

It is the observation, appreciation, wonder, curiosity, awe, gratitude ... the right questions that would help pair every gift-'pre-answer' that nature has bestowed on us with the motive.

So, as we educate ourselves and look retrospectively at life, our goal should not be to look down on nature or hastily invent solutions. Our purpose is to craft profound questions.

Take a modern ailment like diabetes. The conventional approach is to question the disease and find a solution for it. But what if we shifted our inquiry? Instead, we should find a question as to why diabetes occurs in the first place. We should ask what sugar truly is, understand its relationship in the cycle of life. Learn the languages of cells, the signalling, their dance and their silent communication. We need to be able to look at symptoms as suggestions, requests, warnings or a cry for help. Rather than stifling their voice we need to provide support.

But to do this, we should be capable of asking a few simple logical questions

"How could such an advanced technological marvel not know how to handle sugar"

 "Am I messing with the controls? "

 " Could my vehicle- my body- be warning me of overspeeding, using wrong fuel, not servicing properly, improper handling....."

Isn't it actually worth wondering.

Why would a body of such profound intelligence fail to handle a simple molecule? Is sugar really the villain, or are we missing a deeper truth?

When we start from this perspective, we begin with the premise of an all-knowing, super-intelligent ecosystem—a system so advanced that it holds all the solutions, yet appears to fail.

The critical question then becomes: Is it failing, or are we failing?

We need to come to terms with the fact that we have to patiently understand and align with the forces of nature. Hold back on the itch to invent new quick solutions from scratch. Learn to observe, then ask the right questions such that they would empower us to appreciate, understand, and align ourselves with the genius that already exists.

When we do this, we stop fighting the system and start flowing with it. We accept, appreciate, and then build upon these foundational solutions to create lives that are more wholesome and meaningful. The fundamental requirement for this is not more information, but better inquiry.

This turns our conventional view of education on its head.

The answers are already there. We should strive to be trained by experts who can teach us to appreciate the solutions nature has made readily available for us. Our guides should be able to stir our curiosity, and to help us learn to ask the right questions. To enable us to cultivate a question that matches a magnificent answer waiting in plain sight.

In doing so, we not only become more intellectually evolved, but we also learn to appreciate nature for what it is: a breathtakingly advanced technology of such elegance that it has already solved its most fundamental challenges. Nature is not waiting for us to find the answers; it is waiting for us to be wise enough to ask the questions that make its work seem meaningful. There is a beauty in the existence of these answers, and it is our human privilege to be the audience that can stand in awe of it all.

The right approach, the only one that leads to true wisdom, is to find the right question. A question that ultimately convinces us that nature is not failing us. We are failing to understand nature, because we have not yet learned to ask.

Our quest now begins with searching for the most appropriate question.