What is your take on this Zen quote?

Question

"There is much that cannot be known by thinking or reasoning. There are other ways of knowing and there are mysteries that cannot be grasped intellectually. Healing often comes through opening to other ways of knowing, to the mystery of life, and to not knowing. In opening to both knowing and not knowing, you come face to face with the wonder of life and its boundless possibilities."

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Answer 1

Absolutely true.

Answer 2

Thinking and reasoning can only carry a person so far in their learnings. After applying the reasoning and what is learned, we gain wisdom. A person can read a book a 100 times. But what of the meaning, the depth, the message of the book? There is great meaning behind the words, dogmas, ideals - if we see beyond into the real meaning of those words, we gain wisdom. We grasp the meaning of the book. The words are just the catalyst to understanding. Knowledge comes in many forms, wisdom comes from within if we are open to it.

Answer 3

It's a good quote.

It would be nice to have an attribution, so that the author or speaker will have proper credit. What say?

And, is it a quotation of a Zen teacher, or are you just saying "zen" as an informal, diffuse, supposition? If we had the author's name, we'd know, even if you're unsure of their religious tradition.

One large quibble with the author, by the way: "Thinking and reasoning" are not necessarily ways of "knowing," they are ways of thinking and reasoning, and of making models.
But, seeing, hearing, feeling, etc. *are* ways of knowing.

I think that one of the famous baseball coaches of the 1950s and 60s said: "You can observe a lot by just looking."

That's all that a zen student needs to "know", and to go about her or his practice. Just looking directly is how we work.

So, come on: give us that attribution.

All Best.

Answer 4

If I am to take it seriously, I cannot know what it means because the only way I can figure it out is to think about it and apply my reasoning to it. But that is exactly the wrong method of coming to know "the mystery of life," as it suggests.

Answer 5

Handwriting in dust upon an empty mirror. Clean the mirror. Words gone, the Void revealed. Kwatz!!!

Answer 6

the core of our being is mystery.

the more i know , the less I know.

I am a stranger to myself and my dream

I want to hear and see my dream which this mystery gives to me

my homework is just to fall correctly and float.

I am the WIND AND the MOONLIGHT to myself thats the reason why I can rejoice constantly with it.

I will be here at he same time nowhere , the happiness and

the ecstacy of being.

Answer 7

Wonderful.

Rigidly logical reasoning, and over-intellectualising, usually leads nowhere. We may see things out of the corner of our biological eye that we miss by looking straight at them ... the same is true of our spiritual eye.

The joy of meditation is that it opens the mind to things that exist beyond conscious thought.

There is a lot to be heard in the silences.

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Answer 8

I disagree with it. You can grasp all 'mysteries' with thinking and reasoning if you break through of the bonds of current train of thought.

Answer 9

I assume it means that you can only discover the truth through experiencing it (meditation) not thinking about it. After experiencing the truth you then reach higher levels of consciousness.

Answer 10

I agree 100% and wish the religious right would consider this.

Answer 11

It sounds very good. But what are you going to do practically to achieve it? Do you know what are the means?
To find out this will be really inteligent. Good luck!

Hare Krishna!