In Mysteries What We Know, And Our Realization Of What We Do Not Know, Proceed Together; The Larger The Island Of Knowledge, The Longer The Shoreline Of Wonder. It Is Like The Quantum World, Where The More We Understand Its Formalism, The Stranger That World Becomes.

-Huston Smith

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In Mysteries What We Know, And Our

Huston Smith

In Mysteries What We Know, And Our Realization Of What We Do Not Know, Proceed Together; The Larger The Island Of Knowledge, The Longer The Shoreline Of Wonder. It Is Like The Quantum World, Where The More We Understand Its Formalism, The Stranger That World Becomes.

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Islands

Together

Realization

The Word Translated, Koan, It Means A Problem. But It's A Very Special Problem. And To Strip It Down To The Way It Works, You Are Given A Problem Which Has No Rational Solution. There Is A Contradiction Built Into It. One Standard - One Is This Is The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping. What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping? And So On. All Right, So The First Thing Is That It Brings Your Rational Mind To An Impasse.

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Hands

Two