Teach thy tongue to say, I don't know, and thou shalt progress.

A quote by my monodes.

In most situations, the truth is that you simply don't know.

Welcome to the topic of not knowing.

This is a very core topic, as you can probably tell.

We're talking about epistemology here.

We're going to get into some deep stuff.

I've really been wanting to talk about this topic now for years,

but it's a tricky topic and it took me a long time to gather my thoughts on this

topic and to experiment with it a lot and finally I feel ready to talk about it so let's go.

Not knowing. There's a lot to say about not knowing believe it or not. The biggest obstacle to spirituality is everything you think you know about reality, self, and other.

Notice something interesting, something counterintuitive about life, that the most ignorant people think they know everything.

And the wisest people are painfully aware of the limits of their knowledge.

I have an episode that I released in the past

called What is Wisdom, where we compared and contrasted

wisdom versus foolishness. And this is one of the ways that you distinguish

the wise from the foolish is how aware are they of the limits of their

knowledge. Most people where are they of the limits of their knowledge?

Most people do not consider the limits of knowledge very seriously,

and they take it for granted. They take for

granted the very possibility of knowing itself as though knowing that it's even

possible is just a given. that it's even possible

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