The Land Where Problems Don’t Exist – The Ultimate Problem Solv

Article Highlights:

• problem solving made easy
• the ultimate problem solver
• how I used it for dental work

Dear Problem Solver,

We all face many problems and dilemmas in our lives. In fact, problem solving is one of the things we must do most often. Our lives are full of questions about whether to do this or that, how to respond regarding difficulties with others, why we got sick or felt like we did about something, etc.

So we are often wondering why something happened to us and what we did to create it. It’s been part of learning to take responsibility for our lives so we could believe we could have better ones. Which is important to anyone’s spiritual journey.

But I think we might have overdone that a little, made it into something it wasn’t meant to be. Could it be we’re a little compulsive now about blaming ourselves for everything? Not everything needs a blame-ee. Or a reason why. How or why we caused something is not always the most important thing to understand about a situation. It doesn’t always lead to the best solution.

That’s why I decided do some writing about self-inquiry. Last week I wrote about using self-inquiry as therapy, the psychological application. I also pointed out that it’s not the same as spiritual inquiry, and I discussed the difference.

This week I want to mention one incredible thing about spiritual self-inquiry. It’s the ultimate problem solver! It really is. It’s a shortcut like no other. And because of that, I want to give a little example of how it works and then I’ll tell you how I used it for my dental work.

Your partner is behaving badly or you’ve just learned you have a serious health problem, or you’re losing your job. You wonder why that’s happening to you. This is where people like ourselves usually begin inquiring.

We start here because we’ve become so programmed to feel it’s our fault. We think we have to know what we did wrong in order to fix it. So we start with questions about what we did wrong or how we made it happen.

We fixate there as if it’s the Holy Grail that will solve the problem. Occasionally it does. But have you noticed how it so often doesn’t? It’s often not enough. That’s where Spiritual Inquiry comes in and saves the day.

Whatever you start with… the boring old What did we do wrong, Why is this happening to me?… whatever it is, don’t stop there. Maybe you get the answer that it happened because of a pattern you have or a childhood wound. Ok. Make a note of of that, but don’t stop there.

Ask what else you need to know, find a deeper root in this matter. And maybe here you get another psychological answer that’s perhaps useful, or not – lets say you reflect that you have a pattern of worry. Ok good. You probably know that already but make note of it and don’t stop there. Go further, asking for what else is there.

At this point you’ll probably start sorting for things such as how to stop worrying – knowing that you haven’t managed this in all your life. You’ll probably stay focused on the psychology of why and how. And you’ll worry about worrying too much.

To depart a bit from that, ask something a little different. Ask, What would it be like if I didn’t worry so much… let yourself feel that, really feel it. There will be relief, right? So much relief.

That’s very good, that feeling. That’s more along the line of spiritual inquiry. You get a feeling, an actually energy, that helps reprogram your system which is currently accustomed to the worried feeling. Great. But don’t stop their either.

Remember you are in a process of spiritual inquiry. So go deeper. And this can all happen fairly quickly, by the way. At first you may need to take 5-10 minutes for the process, but it will soon become instinctual. Just like asking yourself how you brought it all on yourself was harder at first but became nearly automatic.

So you’ve felt what it would be like not to worry so much. Go deeper. You’ve gone from psychology and words to a more feeling state, right? From here, words become less frequent if you let them go. So instead of asking another question like how to stop worrying, just remind yourself to go deeper. And let the words go.

Let them go, this is where surrender comes in. Surrender words and questions and answers. And let that moment of surrender extend – don’t fill it in with words and thoughts. Stay in the surrender and let it deepen. Don’t fill it in. That is where you find the Silence, the Stillness, the Spaciousness. The Peace.

The Land Where Problems Do Not Exist

In that place, your problem does not exist!!! It. Is. Not. There. Only you are there, as the spaciousness you are. And that you has all the answers, IS the answer. And in that space, your problem can begin to unravel itself even in the outer world. Just by you being there, in Spaciousness.

In that place, things simplify. Clarify. Practical steps become clear, opportunity and spontaneity are funded, and so much more. Self-inquiry always leads there… where problems don’t exist but solutions do.

I think that’s VCool – it’s like magic.
That’s Self-Inquiry – the ultimate problem solver.
What a very good thing to know.

How spiritual self-inquiry solved my dental dilemma

I used it last week regarding dentistry, of all things. I had a small budget for some badly needed dental work (ya’ll know this is an on-going story for me.). But I learned my budget wasn’t great enough for the better solution, the one I really needed.

I fussed around and felt pretty discouraged for several hours. I even cried in frustration. Then I went into spiritual self-inquiry for this very outer-world problem. I was full of questions and whys and what abouts. I was full of confusion about how to proceed with less or how to get more funds for better solution.

In spiritual self-inquiry I started with some of those questions but didn’t really try for answers because I recognized them immediately as circular. Instead of sorting for their answers I just told myself, Go Deeper. Deepen.

I’ve trained myself to this now and I drop down fairly quickly. Through the confusion, deeper. Through the history. Beyond the angst, the lack, the fears, the causes. Moving deeper, I noted them all -and recognized them as old friends I’d met and answered many times before.

So I didn’t reinvent answers all over again, I just said deeper. I didn’t ask, Why is this still happening to me? Why don’t I have the funds? I felt these but I didn’t linger there, I’ve been there many times before. You know what I mean, right?

Deeper I went and then it was like something popped. The moment of surrender happened and then Spaciousness. It felt so good of course, it felt like home. So I just stayed there, meaning that I came back into the outer world still oriented to home.

And suddenly it was all so clear. It all seemed sOoo easy. I knew how to proceed: I just needed to begin. Period. Suddenly I knew that the end result didn’t depend on the first steps and the next and the next.

There were many steps before I couldn’t afford anything else and they were the right steps no matter where it ended and how. So, surrendered in this way, and from this place, I’ve begun my dental work at last! Not trying to trust, not believing in a miracle. Just knowing all will be well.

I feel so peaceful and right about it all. It will all be well for me whatever it is and however it rolls forward. I simply don’t doubt that anymore at all. And I truly don’t wonder how it will turn out or what I should do. I do what comes next, knowing it will reveal itself, it will all come to pass. I can tell it will all be well.

This type of self-inquiry is brilliant, it solves problems like crazy!! It’s amazing. What a wonderful thing to know! And it’s how our world becomes the world we dream of, The Land Where Problems Don’t Exist. It’s there within us. By seating ourselves within and living it outward the world becomes as we are.

I’m raising a glass 🥂 to the land where problems don’t exist. See ya’ there!
Lovingly,

Mayet Leilani