"And then there’s the ultimate unknown known:
the 'enlightenment' (satori, kensho) of Zen practice.
If my sense of it from accounts I have read is accurate,
it involves seeing the world and realizing that you always
knew its true nature, but you just didn’t know you knew…
because you were too busy putting it into boxes and
matrices and categories and words. Which reminds us
again that while logical deductions and categorizations
can lead us to discoveries, they can also lead us away
from them."
— James Harbeck on Groundhog Day, 2023
This post was suggested by a Log24 image from All Saints' Day, 2018 —
Related verbiage: Unthought Known.