As the old koan goes… “Not Knowing is Most Intimate.” A few months ago, Eric shared this talk from Matthew Brensilver on knowing and not knowing. This Sunday, he brought a few reminders from that talk (Knowing and Not Knowing are not opposite ends of a spectrum… Not Knowing is not ignorance, but an “unwillingness to cover over the mystery with self-serving certainties”) in order to set up this talk from Brian Lesage on intimacy. We discussed the relationship the old monk in the story was pointing at…. how is it that “not knowing is most intimate?” And how can that free the heart and mind?
From Joanna Macy, “World as Lover, World as Self” : “the practice of vipassana, or insight meditation, represents a short-circuiting of the codes and constructs we impose upon reality… Rather that eliminating noise to extract message, the meditator switches off the message in order to attend to the noise.”
