Uncluttering

“Seung Sahn’s teaching style consisted of raising one impenetrable question after another. The purpose was to surprise our rational, linear minds into an experience of spaciousness and freedom. Only when the mind is free of its usual array of concepts, opinions, and patterns can it open to the truth of things so often obscured by rationality.

After someone had been stumbling around for an answer, the Zen master would break into a radiant smile, lean forward slightly, and in his Korean accent would say emphatically, ‘Only don’t know! Have don’t know mind!’”

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle. “Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows. A Couple’s Journey through Alzheimer’s.” Penguin, NY, 2008.

"Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness." Adyashanti