August 31, 2025

Knowing is the foundation of doing the right thing at the right time in the right way in the right place in each situation as it arises. But. It is an intuitive knowing, not an intellectual knowing. It is a knowing born of the here, now, not of the should, ought, must because someone says so variety.

Our Psyche is the source of the right kind of knowing, not our brain. We cannot think our way to doing what is called for here, now. We cannot be taught to know how to know what to do when, where, how. Instruction is in the way of the way, which waits for those who "just know."

Zen is knowing that doesn't know how it knows what it knows. Taoism is knowing the same thing. And there are Zen/Taoist "Masters" who market themselves as knowing how to teach us what we know. There are Buddhist teachers by the thousands who tell is how to know what the Buddha knew sitting under the Bodhi Tree, when the Buddha himself didn't know what he was doing beyond sitting, waiting, with "Peaceful abiding, here, now."

If we can live peacefully abiding here, now, that's it forever.