Only Don’t Know

There are many revelations and, for lack of a better word, experiences such as bliss/joy/love or wisdom/insight/recognition that are transcendent to the person and their biology, and do not fit neatly into any human conceptual category. Words are used as humans try to communicate with each other, but words lead us to thinking we know what is being pointed to, when clearly we do not. We also may assume that because we haven’t had the insight, experience or revelation, then it must not exist, so we can explain it away as some sort of delusion.

“The Tao that can be spoken about is not the true Tao.” ~ Lao Tzu

I usually just don’t talk about many things as it leads most people to look for the lost key under the street light of their personal knowledge and experience rather than where it actually is. Not within our self-reflecting bubble of the known.

In Zen it is said, “Open mouth already a mistake.”  For good reason.

The human mind likes to make sense of experiences and puts them into nice little conceptual boxes. So the tendency is to think, “Oh- I know what that experience is. It must be neurotransmitters, or hallucinations, or wishful thinking, or delusions.”

Many think, “If it is not within my experience or realm of knowing, then it must not be valid.”

“Everyone takes the limits of their own vision for the limits of the world.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The elephant in the room is not only different than we think, it is different than we can think.

Only don’t know. The last step before awakening. 💥