“I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.” — Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Peter McEwenx.com“I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.” — Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
By staying with our raw sensory experience, we cease to see the world through our concepts and subsequent fears. We learn to meet our experience just as it is. A sound is just a sound; a sensation is just a sensation. Nothing more, nothing less. There is profound peace in this quality of presence.
Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild
I believe that accepting the limits of our own perceptions is all we have to do to begin waking up. The road to waking up is paved not with new knowledge but with unknowing—really knowing how deeply we don’t know things, like what reality actually is. We start down this road by accepting not-knowing as a fundamental quality of being human.