In spiritual Circles there is a saying.

The saying is "Do not forget to take care of business"

Taking care of business is important and sometimes one must ask the consciousness of the self a question in order to choose one path or the other path.

Before enlightenment Chop Sticks and bring water from the well.

After Enlightenment Chop Sticks and bring water from the well.

So some questioning is neccassery.

If we stopped asking questions from Ourselves altogether then that could possibly mean that you would go out of the world altogether.

It is important to remember that the ability to question is quite a beautiful thing. It is the miracle of choice and it is part of what it means to be alive and be Intelligent.

Enlightened beings probably do less questioning as in the sense that they no longer need any answers to their own existence like most of us do.

The reason for this is that from the enlightened view point or stand point everything that occurs is the divine in its many states or fashions. There is nothing left to be questioned because they have understood this concept and know it as the very life that they are.

A particle of water does not question why it is a particle of water. Water is water.

A Body, A soul, An idea are all just fractions/divisions of the bigger equation. The bigger equation when you see the equation as one is the divine energy that is understood and is accepted fully and absolute. This will bring down all questions as one begins to Sense the divine in their heart and know it as the self.

The term Taking Care of Business in the spiritual term does not mean Running your own business inbetween meditation sessions.

It means taking care of business in the sense that one needs to do basic things in order to live and not let the spiritual stuff interfere with that. For Instance, Keeping yourself clean Hygienic, Nourishing the body correctly, Working regularly to pay your bills and so on.

"Do not forget to take care of business"

It is actually a great Mantra to keep yourself in check too... Try it.

Simon x

The day we stop asking questions from ourselves would be the day we stop being interested in ourselves, unless there's some superhuman position of niravana that you can acheive that puts you at complete peace leaving no curiosity in your mind whatsoever. I truly doubt I could ever be at a point where I know everything about everything.

You can't possibly stop asking questions, can you? My mind races at a hundred questions a second, I don't know how I could possibly stop that.

There is necessity of thinking critically
Whatever is inept, leading to damage and ailing, should be discarded. Whatever is skillful, leading to fulfillment and harmony, should be chased.
We have to apply the test of skillfulness to all knowledge in all our communication.

Where is this thinking taking you?

Is it moving you in a direction that is wise and kind? One quick test isn't enough, you know.

We have to keep at it, so that your sensitivity to the results of your actions grows more and more refined with practice.

When we have done the hard work of asking these questions, then only one can decide whether a doctrine, or a guru, or a belief, is worth following.

And at the same time, we have also taught ourselves how to live — a learning that can bring with it joy and the energy to go profound.

It dares u?

To the Turquoise Blue Pond I met on the plane to Detroit, the Yellow Brick Road and Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow:
When the mental content serves as guidance and takes precedent over rational thought, which seems to analyse the mental content for some sort of meaning which it may or may not have, (meaning the rational thought may not be up to the job), and when a discernible intuitive content trumps all - in the way of guidance then, yes, this mad mendicant, who I may say, is quite used to being mad, still is amazed and quite weird-ed out; for those who were wondering what weird-ed out means.
Nevertheless I'm glad to have IB to talk with.(sometimes)
My guru has a short list. My guru's guru has a longer list. But as the song sings "he ain't heavy, he's my brother, so on we go."

sHOULD i HAVE ANOTHER Glass of sherry?

You're too much, Edmund. Now, if you are considerably souced up, I have a question for you.
What is the difference between a scientist and a yogi, given that they both investigate?

A scientist dismisses irrelevence, a yogi dismisses nothing.
For example, when I carry something heavy, like laundry or groceries up a flight of stairs, I say to myself, this isn't heavy, it's only atoms. I'm carrying atoms. It works for a nano second. Repeatedly. Now that's evidence. But a scientist would say a billioneth of a percent is not relevent to the calculation.
So you see, I'm such a "goner". I do little stuff like that all the time.