He said, “My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical.” Let me repeat it: “Anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical.” He has used them as steps to climb up beyond them. He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.”
The moment you understand, then whatsoever | am saying also is nonsensical. If you don’t understand, then it looks meaningful. All meaning is because of misunderstanding. If you understand, then all meaning disappears; only life is. Meaning is of the mind, a projection of the mind, interpretation of the mind. Then, a rose is a rose is a rose — not even these words exist. Just the rose… just the rose without any name, without any adjective to it, without any definition to it. Just life is — suddenly without any meaning, without any purpose. And that is the greatest mystery to realize.
So meaning is not the real search. The real search is to come upon life itself — raw, naked.
All questions are foolish in a way, and all answers also. All questions are foolish in a way because they are all mind-created, and mind is the barrier between you and the real. And mind goes on creating questions, it delays the search. It convinces you that you are a great seeker because you are asking so many questions. But because of your asking you are collecting clouds around you. First you will ask, then the question will surround you; then you will start getting some answers, then answers will surround you — and there will always remain a barrier between you and the raw, wild, naked life, that which is. It is neither a question nor an answer, it is a revelation. When the mind is not, it is revealed to you. It is simply there, manifested in all its glory, available in its totality.
But man goes on asking questions, and it appears to him that this questioning is somehow a great search. It is not. All questions, all answers — all games, all are games. You can play if you like, but nothing is going to be solved through them. And people go on asking to the very end of their lives.