“There’s a phrase in Zen Buddhism that comes from a koan, which is, ‘Not knowing is most intimate,’" @ozekiland told me.
"It’s when we don’t know something and when we can sit in that state of not knowing is when there’s a kind of an intimacy with the world around us.”
"It’s when we don’t know something and when we can sit in that state of not knowing is when there’s a kind of an intimacy with the world around us.”
I love that idea: That the deepest intimacy is knowing a person or thing well enough to recognize they can't truly be known. Feeling you have others fully mapped means you don't know them as well as you think you do.
“In this state of not knowing, curiosity and engagement with the world arises, for lack of a better word. And that engagement, that curiosity is intimate and very, very alive."
"And this really pertains, I think, to the process of any kind of creation, music, art, certainly literature, is the ability to sit in that state of not knowing and somehow find some way to rest there, somehow find some way to be comfortable there.”
There's so much more here. nytimes.com/2022/01/25/opi…
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