Sometimes there is no answer to why...AS IT IS

My son was shooting at me a barrage of life questions, from the back seat of the car, the usual reaction when i make him put down his Minecraft and Roblox... probably to annoy me as much as i annoyed him... I let him vent, anyway it's normal for the intelligence to start working when the mind is stripped of its obsessions.... anyway, he was asking something like why we have 2 eyes and one mouth... something along that line... normally i channel some brilliant answer for him.. yea, brilliant in his childlike innocence... but that day, there was just nothing to say, it was like that. Silence. I had no answers nor did i want to give him some smart answer concocted in my mind. I felt compelled to let the question hover for a bit...

For a second the road in front of me seemed to expand and collapse, everything became a tad bright and brilliant. My hands were firmly on the wheels, the car was moving smoothly as ever. There was no fear of banging into a monkey family that frequently dash across this stretch of road and end up as the many roadkills I try to avoid seeing many times. 

This time, there was a confidence, a trust, everything was ok, no monkeys. Go with it. My body was there but something else was also there. An extended awareness. 'As it is' i heard it with my being.  AS IT IS!!! That hit me between my eyes, so that is what it means. We see it used in many forms in spiritual books and the masters of mind have said that, and that is what it means. 

Many things are there because they are there, there is no really whys. Whys are from the mind and some answers even the mind cannot wrap its greedy tentacles around it because is a matter from beyond its capacity. It is not to understand. It just is. 

Children are here to teach us. Because they are fresh from the source and we have forgotten that. To remind us, they ask us all these questions, nudging us back to the source. 

Just when I thought i was teaching my son something profound, turns out he hit me with the realisation of something even truly more life-changing.