Interesting, as always, Celeste. I guess I'm not seeking clarity and security so much as the next layer of understanding. When I'm insecure or unclear, I question my actions due to the results and my decisions for their ethics and logic. I usually know what I meant or intended. Descartes wrote, "Dubito ergo Cogito ergo Sum." "Dubito" is usually left out when his statement is quoted, but I always leave it in.
Thanks Deborah. For me, "dubito" is a sign of internal insecurity, which of course must be faced for thinking, inquiry, and clarity to happen. Maybe I'm equating insecurity with uncertainty. Both are ubiquitous.
Thanks, Celeste. To Descartes, and to me, the idea of Dubito is to pause in order to reflect, to be comfortable in not-knowing. It is to be somewhat unsettled, as in ready to learn something new.
That is indeed a more constructive spin on the uncertainty attitude! I was trying to recall how old I was when I finally knew that not-knowing was not shameful. Reading "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" helped a lot.
On another level, I would be so grateful if our leaders knew how to pause, ask questions, be a lot less certain of their anointed role in bringing on the second coming via armageddon.
Interesting, as always, Celeste. I guess I'm not seeking clarity and security so much as the next layer of understanding. When I'm insecure or unclear, I question my actions due to the results and my decisions for their ethics and logic. I usually know what I meant or intended. Descartes wrote, "Dubito ergo Cogito ergo Sum." "Dubito" is usually left out when his statement is quoted, but I always leave it in.
Thanks Deborah. For me, "dubito" is a sign of internal insecurity, which of course must be faced for thinking, inquiry, and clarity to happen. Maybe I'm equating insecurity with uncertainty. Both are ubiquitous.
Thanks, Celeste. To Descartes, and to me, the idea of Dubito is to pause in order to reflect, to be comfortable in not-knowing. It is to be somewhat unsettled, as in ready to learn something new.
That is indeed a more constructive spin on the uncertainty attitude! I was trying to recall how old I was when I finally knew that not-knowing was not shameful. Reading "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" helped a lot.
On another level, I would be so grateful if our leaders knew how to pause, ask questions, be a lot less certain of their anointed role in bringing on the second coming via armageddon.