Episode 21: The Moving Target of Unknowing
Mindfulness+ with Thomas McConkie
English - March 30, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 523 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Health & Fitness mindfulness buddhism contemplation development meditation psychology thomasmcconkie Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The mind prefers to have answers. When we don’t have answers, we feel anything from low-grade anxiety to full-blown panic. If we pay close attention to life, we find that no sooner do we know one thing than we realize there are even more things we don’t know. In short, the experience of “unknowing” is inescapable. What if, instead of spending all our energy avoiding the discomfort of unknowing, we opened up to it? What if unknowing is a gateway leading us to a new way of being human?