dailydatewithgod

Our minds want to move to a solution usually as quickly as possible.  It is inherent to our survival that we have a way to move forward.  To stay to long in perplexity can cause us to feel anxious and unsettled.  We find great pride in having the answer and knowing which step to take.  There is nothing wrong with either of those.  From a purely survival perspective it makes sense.  But we are at a point in our evolution where our survival is not the kind of question in our minds it used to be.  With some exception most human beings do not need to fear having their basic needs met.  Which means those of us who have that luxury to not be so burdened by the need to meet our survival needs can learn to discipline our minds to see differently.  We can entertain the experiences of perplexity to get at some of the deeper questions of our soul.  This requires some re-wiring in our brains.  At first we will balk and want to squirm out of it, but if we commit to practice sitting in the perplexity without running away at the first sign of discomfort or the making of a story in our minds about how we are a loser because we do not have an answer, we may find ourselves opened up to new understandings we may not have otherwise allowed to be revealed to us.  It is like contemplating the idea of our hearts being more than just a pump for blood.  It is being willing to see the multifaceted nature of our bodies as more than just a physical vehicle but a clue as to how the universe operates.  There is a flow, interaction between various systems, interacting with bodies outside of itself, it take in and gets rid of various kinds of energy, and so on. By making room for perplexity we are not a walking advertisement for cluelessness but a distinctive possibility of things which are more than we may have imagined.