not knowing | not knowing
Oct.23.2012
"You don't know what you don't know until they tell you that you don't know."
This is my version of Catch 22, the most elegant and brilliant catch ever.
There is a catch to everything. Life's style is that she likes to let you think you have it under control, then spring it on you. And...
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Mar.25.2012
"At 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz [now a founder of a growing data mart, Factual] wrote, 'I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart.'" (NYT, Sunday Business, March 25th, 2012) He now is. I am glad. What's next?
"The world is one big data problem," Mr. Elbaz says. And he...
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Dec.26.2011
It’s been a busy time for me in online dating world: much fun, new friends, maximizing my exposure to serendipity on the road to true love. I keep being surprised at how much this process teaches me about myself.
For instance, I just added another paragraph to the list of qualities I am seeking...
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May.30.2010
Learning Is your Dance of Life1. Some of our best learning is unlearning—when we learn what we thought was true, isnt.2. Some of our best knowing is not knowing—when we have “beginners mind.”3. “I am still learning.” Michelangelo at age 87.4. ...
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May.13.2010
At my epistemological best, I am a lucid dreamer, dreaming that I am awake.
At my epistemological worst, I am blissfully asleep, believing in a distinction between fact and fiction.
At my epistemological middle, I am the sound of one skull breathing and snoring.
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Jan.20.2010
1.I looked into you as long as I could:But I didn't see any infinity.It’s just not there.I’m sorry.You are all here.2.Zen is all surface,No deeper than whatever is.
pavel, skating the thin ice of presence
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May.31.2009
Syadvada is a Jain practice of tentativeness when talking about reality. Reality is too multifaceted to be captured in a single point of view. Syadvada offers a total of seven perspectives to counteract dogmatic thought style and categorical expression.
syād-asti—in some ways, it is,
syād-...
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Mar.17.2009
In my teens (when I was still living in the USSR) I had a neighbor who was blind. He seemed imperturbable, monolithic, settled yet spontaneous and relaxed. I never knew anyone like that until I started reading about Zen masters with their notorious mix of non-threatening confidence and...
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