The Sound of One Hand Clapping

The answer to life's "Big Question" is: there is no answer.

That does not mean that the Big Question has no answer. It simply means that the answer is found in "no answer". This only seems enigmatic because words cannot properly express what "no answer" really means. The meaning must be realized through direct experience, which usually comes when all sensual experience is exposed as an illusion.

"No answer" does not mean there is no solution to life's struggles. It means that the solution can only be found by letting go of the question itself. The question only arises because of the illusion, and without the illusion there would be no question. Any answer other than "no answer" is just another part of the illusion as well, and hence not really an answer to anything. So if you think you know the answer, then you have bought into a lie and are still suffering from delusion.

When you finally realize that there is no answer, and truly believe it, then you will have found the answer in the "nothingness that is everything". To know you know nothing is to know everything you need to know. And to think you know anything is simply not knowing that you know nothing, which is another definition of ignorance.

If you have trouble comprehending what it is I am trying to say, it is likely because you are still clinging to the illusion of knowing something, and attempting to determine the illusory value of my words rather than experiencing them - and me - as the truth always intends, directly.

It might help (if you are interested in the truth at all) to meditate on the enigma of not knowing. This has at times been referred to as, "the sound of one hand clapping". You could begin by questioning what it means to know anything, and thus turn the illusion - with all its questions - against itself.