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Not Needing to Have Answers & the Wisdom Function ~ Shinzen Young

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Uploaded by on Dec 6, 2009

Shinzen talks about the need to work through the need for meaning and knowing. He talks about the sensations that make not knowing a problem for us, the reasons for doing this, how other spiritual cultures approach and talk about this process, and the means of training ourselves to have equanimity with "don't know". Filmed in Nov. 2009 at Mt. Carmel Spiritual Centre in Niagara Falls.

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  • Whoa. This is uncharacteristically (for Shinzen) negative in affect.

    It's his Buddhist predisposition to think that Reality is Nothing . . . taken too far.

    "Not knowing" . . . doesn't mean you can't know ANYTHING. It only means you never know EVERYTHING.

    Sheesh -- don't get discouraged (!)

    Some things you know. Some you don't. But you can always come to know what you don't already.

    Reality is willing to be known by us.

    The "desire to know" . . . is an invitation to it.

  • Shinzen's words really resonate..."the need to know" is my own challenge. Excellent!

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