
In today's Patheos blog post
"Zen & the Bodhisattva Way: A Meditation on the Three Pure Precepts", James Ford mentions Thomas Moore when he discusses the path of not knowing after quoting the English poet John Keats:
"And it is here that a new kind of wisdom begins to appear. It is
something other than the weighing of various factors, the first not
knowing wisdom found in hesitation. But it is this wisdom, this not
knowing that is the real gold, the path of depth, the Buddha way.
Commenting
on Keat’s perspective which is the relentless letting go that takes us
to this place, the contemporary spiritual psychologist Thomas Moore, who
also has some insight into our Zen way, writes how 'Knowledge is not
always the adding on of information and skill; sometimes it involves the
loss of both. (This) knowledge (that is wisdom) is not always a matter
of becoming smart and intelligent; it could be the discovery of one’s
foolishness and ignorance.'"
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