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KNOWING NOT-KNOWING\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

I remember being instructed in TSK class about not-knowing. It took me quite awhile to get a sense of it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a sense of being immersed in it. You have to ask yourself; how would you go about knowing not-knowing?<\/p>\n

In TSK class, it’s suggested that the ordinary way we experience not-knowing is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 imposed. It comes about as a result of the conceptual boundaries we impose on ourselves through limitations of thought. We think\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be because of that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t accept this idea, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll accept that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d These boundaries of exclusion simply do not permit knowing what is not included within its self-created framework. This kind of not-knowing is self-isolating, as it sets up borderlines and perimeters between what we think we know, and a kind of blank that we conceptualize as the not-known. As a result, this kind of Not-knowing denies our capacity to know. Rinpoche writes:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We accept that our own thoughts and own mind as such do not have intrinsic value; do not carry knowledge. It is positions that we affirm as right or wrong: not the telling of the story but its outcome. Not-knowing is elevated to a fundamental principle, the original position from which each of us must start. Since this is so, we are in the wrong until proven to be in the right. Our pain, our confusion, our agitation all confirm our own shortcomings.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dynamics of Time and Space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Tarthang Tulku, p. 176<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As long as not-knowing excludes knowledge, we are trapped by our positions, and there is no escape from the limits of the known. But when we set aside the distinction between knowing and not-knowing, engaging not-knowing as an activity of knowledge, escape from the consequences of not-knowing is no longer an issue in the same way.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Love of Knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Tarthang Tulku, p. 379<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So there is a Not-knowing that is NOT \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself-imposed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, a Not-knowing that is not self-limiting. This Not-knowing does not close down, it does not reject, ban, prohibit, blacklist, rule-out, or refuse admittance. It does not lock-out, repudiate eject or shut-out. Rather, this Not-knowing opens, includes, incorporates, takes-in, and welcomes. This kind of Not-Knowing is not what the knower knows. Rinpoche writes:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Instead of trying to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcunknown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, we can integrate the unknown into knowledge, allowing human knowing to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdevelop\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in a new way. Positions lose their rigid nature, together with their power to exclude. There is no situation that is hopeless, and also no need for hope. A path to greater knowledge lies open before us<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We discover knowledge within not-knowing. Even at the outset, we know knowing when we know our not-knowing as not-knowing. The task of inquiry is to open this channel of communication between not knowing and knowing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto create the opportunity for knowledge to speak<\/em>. LOK p.379<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

TSK teaches us Open Inquiry is essential for allowing Not-Knowing to pervade those conceptual structures we accept as the known. When we inquire into our judgments and opinions, questioning their roots and foundations, we allow not-knowing to pervade how they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve become so sticky or frozen. When we do this, Rinpoche writes:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not-knowing thus reveals the self in action, and an inquiry into not-knowing becomes a kind of psychology of the self, at the level where the fundamental\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 are established. In knowing our not-knowing, we see how human beings draw on knowledge that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcenters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 through the senses and through linguistic structures to set up a world and define the role they will play in that world. We see how what is perceived and interpreted is made into \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe real\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, and how observation, meaning-giving and other fundamental human activities operate.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Knowing our not-knowing, we can explore, analyze, and understand without establishing, asserting, or maintaining. Unconcerned by the limits on knowing that our inquiry discloses, knowledge itself can continue to deepen and expand, acting as its own witness.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d LOK p.382-3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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