If I were to ask you one of my favourite questions, ‘What are you not facing that is right in front of your face?’, you would know. But most likely you would immediately cram it back into its Houdini trunk. And sit on it. And try to think from there.
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Or for brevity I might have formed the question in my mind this way:
Can I be sure that what I as the listener am about to say will be of more value than what you are about to think?
Things work in context, not in the spotlight.
Holding on to the self that parked the car. We should see behind the mall to its expression of a systemic, snaking stealthiness of purpose, and not let it sneak into our decisions. We should see the massive system of interruption of self and thinking that it is intended to be. And we should ask ourselves, right now, in this moment, in front of this thing and that thing so like it, and these things we are required to like in order to be liked, what do I really think? What do I really want?
The first turn starts. The thinking partner asks this question (or one so nearly like it, it might as well be this one):
What do you want to think about, and what are your thoughts?
If you knew’, is hypothetical. So the question has to start that way. And ‘how would you’ is hypothetical. So the question has to end that way. And in the middle has to be the truth: the true liberating assumption. It is not hypothetical.