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>It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library. Your analagy is akin to The Cloud of Unknowing, a spiritual guide to becoming
by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library.
Your analagy is akin to The Cloud of Unknowing, a spiritual guide to becoming closer to god by "unknowing", written by a 14th century christian mystic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing
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- 09bjb 9y agoSimilar to something I read in a Jack Kornfield book the other day, about a Zen tradition called "just sitting" where you dispense with any goals or concepts of enlightenment and, well, just sit. Presumably it gets you somewhere...or nowhere :)