What the Mind Cannot Think, Yet Thinks By
It is other than the known, and beyond the unknown — so we heard from the ancients who explained it to us.
Do I split the world only into 'known' and 'unknown,' forgetting the place beyond both?
📝Reflection
We often split the world into two bins — the known and the unknown. Yet Kena says the source fits neither bin. It is not something 'knowable' as an object, nor is it a wholly foreign unknown — rather, it is the ground that makes both knowing and not-knowing possible. It is like how a fish can hardly be said to 'know' or 'not know' the water. This verse gently widens the very frame of our thinking. When we set down the habit of sorting everything into two bins, a larger picture opens.
🌱Apply It Today
When you rush to sort something as 'known' or 'unknown' today, ask once, 'What about beyond both?'
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
