Not Knowing Together

A small meditation on interfaith dialogue

Quote one:

From the ninth century Chinese Zen master, Dizang:

“Not knowing is most intimate.”

Quote two:

From Oliver Cromwell, in an August 3, 1650, letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland.

“I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”

I’m deeply interested in the interfaith project as a dialogue between practitioners. There are other forms of interfaith conversation, and some I believe can be enormously valuable.

But I’m thinking from the position of someone who has deeply engaged the way through a particular path. And from that what can be found in a conversation.