Thought and ignorance
Mon, 01 Jan 1996 Filed in:
Journal
Thought is based in ignorance, since
the motive for engaging in thought is to effect a transition into
knowledge. But if thought is based in knowledge, where is the
motive? It heads nowhere, because it’s already arrived; and so the
mind stays relatively quiet, and uncreative. To think productively,
we must find a point of ignorance, and allow it to suffuse our
whole mind. Then, as if becoming a child or a student, we may now
be taught according to what we see at first as foolishness, and
perhaps later as understanding.