You have to know what direct truth is to move in that direction. We don't have that much time. We want a more powerful answer. We want a direct personal experience and not the experience of general dogma. Few of us experience our own dogma.
Life is the biggest question and it is also a dangerous question.
Life is so wide open in structure, it is easy to lose your focus and get swept up into someone else's drama. With the life question, anything is a fair subject. You are easily seduced into acts of contaminating the people you are working with. This question takes great personal strength not to contaminate others. Contamination is a real temptation.