The three greatest words in the English language: I don’t know. In the space of “I don’t know” anything is possible. All of ones probability functions and intentioning comes crashing down. That which binds you, no longer can hold you back since you’ve opened the space for something different to show up. Quite literally you are in the indeterminate state. How often during times of great emotions (good or bad) there is an exhilaration present running just in the background of youness. Your heart beat speeds up, you hear the blood rushing through your veins and there is a sense of free falling. It is viscerally felt and while it can be terrifying, ultimately it is freedom itself. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche has said “the experience of life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. The good news is there is no ground to land on.” The only reason why people believe they are not already in this indeterminate state is that they believe form is reality. Even though all forms are made up of indeterminate energies spinning around at the speed of light they have been programmed to believe in this limitation. How does one get around this limitation? I don’t know!
Lao Tzu said “To attain knowledge adds things every day...to attain wisdom removes things every day." This seems counter intuitive to the thing that believes itself to be real. Of course that thing is your intellect and it lives very much by the axiom: I think, therefore I am. By believing that knowledge is enough you’re ignoring a vital part of your incredible attributes as a human. You’ve forgotten intuition which is as important as knowledge. Intuition is wisdom on crack. Intuition is the willingness to listen with a different set of operating parameters. Intuition leads to: I am, therefore I think. Intuition doesn’t actually determine anything, it’s a process of direction. The Buddha said you are not on a path, you are the path. You are the very state of I don’t know and more importantly you don’t need to know since you ARE.
In the bible we read about the transfiguration of Jesus. The transfiguration is all about I don’t know. There are no intellectual explanations that can explain how Jesus changes into something different then what the observers believed him to be. For just a moment, what they believed is rendered unknowable. This is the mystery of what you are and it can’t be reached by holding onto a belief system. Form is clearly not reality. You’ve entered into the cloud of unknowing and in unknowing, all knowing is not needed to be known and therefore IS known. How counter intellectual is that! Imagine your life where knowing about something wasn’t your goal but just being as you are, without conceptual limitations, was how you lived. Sounds sort of out thereish… maybe a little exhilarating? No one knows “I don’t know” until they let go of no.
