All is lost and found at once....

Is there hope?  Is it not as hollow as fear?  As the Taoist say, are they still not phantoms of illusion?  Are we here only to be observers aware and awash in ignorance, stumbling painfully towards happiness? How is it possible to reach happiness in other's perceived misery?  Do we laugh at the illusion of Samsara as they ride round and round, we being all knowing that it is an illusion by some god or nature for their merriment?
This seems cruel and unusual and I accept the fact to comprehend the universe is like the ant attempting to understand the nuclear physics of the Sun.  But there in lies the answer.  There is no answer.  Just the pondering of what is?  We ponder too.  Why?  How come? When?  But as we find there are no true answers just steps to the next questions.  Like so many things the questions are projections from within us and they are more important than the answers.  They begin the creative spirit within us.Only we who ask the questions have the right to hear the answers.  The "Answerer" is revealed and growth takes place.

There is still too much of I and you in the universe and not enough of no-self as true self.  We cannot seek ourselves anymore than can we find empirical evidence of a smile.  Therein lies another paradox.  True self is no self.  No self observes, grows unimpeded by ego, principle, impulses or logic.  Things are neither good or bad.  Things just are in existence. When there is no I the void belongs to us and all creation is at our finger tips.  We find eventually we are observing ourselves creating...thus is born the understanding of responsibility.  We create EXACTLY what we designed ourselves to create.To educate, to feel, to experience all and nothing that is neither in or out of existence.....