Shinmon Michael Newton suggests that unknowing or not knowing have always been part of the human condition.

Practicing with "I don't know" can strengthen attention, deepen humility and cultivate compassion.

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Anchoring in the Koans of Knowing and Not Knowing, Myoshin Kate McCandless asks that we open to curiosity and not cling to our fixed views of each other. All we know is always partial, subject to change, and provisional.

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Unmon Jacob Butula, shuso for the Practice Period, offers a Way-Seeking Mind Talk - a traditional talk in Zen Buddhism where a practitioner reflects on their personal life story and the causes and conditions that brought them to Zen practice.

“We don’t know what we don’t know. It is important to create the capacity for the changes that inevitably come.”

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