Posts Tagged with "knowing"
Do You Know How It Works?
Take a quick glance at your keyboard, you know how it works right? You hit a button and “something” happens. Now, could you explain to me how it works? Don’t forget the details. We tend to have very abstract thoughts, but is that knowing? Are you able to explain the inner workings of a keyboard? [...]
Continue reading...You’re No Good if you don’t Know (!/?)
Monday, February 15, 2010
A strange word; knowing. Both in English and in Dutch (my native tongue) there is no word for the opposite of knowing. We just make due with something like “not-knowing,” immediately identifying it as in inferior to knowledge. It’s a simple fact of the Western world, we highly regard people with knowledge. So you’re constantly [...]
Continue reading...Value Rigidity, Empty Teacups and Unboxing the Brain
Monday, January 11, 2010
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!” “Like this [...]
Continue reading...The power of silence
Thursday, August 27, 2009
In a post a while back I started with the quote: Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Shunryu Suzuki, a Soto-zenpriest who lived in San fransisco in the 1960′s elaborated this one a bit further when his pupils were asking about this. You are all enlightened until you open [...]
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