Nowadays it is possible to find a lot of information in the internet; from a step-by-step explanation to retrieve files from a flash drive infected by virus up to the instant download of a book, and this is amazing. This “knowledge†makes our life easy and fun, but the real knowledge that gives us balance, comfort, and ease cannot be found in the internet.
Then, I have started to wonder how I got knowledge to overcome all the difficulties throughout my life. And also, I started to reflect on the amount of reasoning and reflection I did and if they really mattered.
Of course, reason and reflection mattered, but only when they established a connection to other people or activities. Alternatively, when it came spontaneously together with an openness quality allowed in my experience.
The holding back quality that is connected to past experiences faded when I put myself in somebody else´s shoes. The frozen quality of a difficult task melted when I accepted my not-knowing. And, the quality of being stuck because of another person changed when I realized his or her qualities.
So I realized that what I do not know are my limits to knowledge; limits of putting myself aside, limits of not opening to new ideas specially from other person, limits of avoiding uncomfortable situations, limits of avoiding intimacy.
Working together, inquiry and analysis need no longer rely exclusively on thoughts and conÂcepts as tools, but instead can find knowledge directly within each moment—not isolated in the knower or hidden within the known, but freely available in a way that links the mind and the surrounding without necessarily locating either ‘mind or ‘world’. LOK 301
The fullness of inquiry will open the structure of knowledge when its intention incorporates an appreciation that can deepen into intimacy. LOK 308