Knowing and unknowing

Unknowing is a state where one decides not to know.

The default state is to know. As long as intentions are there, we find a way to know.

Since knowledge is subjective, it is a fallacy to decide someone is wrong simply because their understanding differs from yours.

Instead, the signature of "true" unknowing is confusion. While knowledge is subjective, we mostly share physicality with other people. Interpretation of such shared physicality is subjective, but there is a thing as "bad" knowledge when the interpretation becomes confusing and strikes fear and uncertainty in the person's mind. Those who know is not surprised by shared physicality events. Those who pretend to know yet disconnect themselves intellectually from the world are constantly surprised. This is the only difference.

The confusion causes fear and uncertainty, which leads to a negative sentiment that further deepens the disconnect. Disbelieving true knowledge, the ego curls up itself.

In contrast, knowledge comes from connection. A connection of the non-dominating kind, where one allows natural flow of information by lowering one's posture and emptying one's vessel. It is not "submission" as they like to call it, it is simply acceptance of truth. And as we reach out and accept the truth given to us, instead of fighting it or blocking it, we gain the knowledge we seek.