The Land of I-Dont-Know

The fertile ground of I-Don’t-Know comes, for me, at time when I have exhausted the minds futile attempts at: sorting, fixing or solving a problem and finally opened my heart fully in order to hear the Truth of the situation.

Listening with my heart is not the same as listening with my mind. When I listen with my heart I see in my minds eye a field. This field is often a space of rolling hills and expansive nothingness for as far as the eye can see. There is no rush to get anywhere here as everything is accepted as it is. This is the place from which I can hear God/dess. This is the land of I-Don’t-Know.

You would think that I would go to this place of I-Don’t-Know all the time, but sometimes the neural pathways of my brain become so overheated, firing in such rapid succession that I simply cannot move out of the line of fire long enough to get to quieter ground. In these times I simply stay present with it, watching as this inferno of past reactive programming inappropriately devours the present moment.

Once the fire has passed, I can fully enter the hearts receptive listening state of I-Don’t-Know. Here there is a patience born of understanding that everything comes and goes in its own time. While the mind is busy acting like a dog tied to a tree with a cat walking just beyond its reach, the heart understands that what is…simply is. There is nothing to fix, solve or do; there is only the blissful walk in the open field, trusting the Truth will come.

I know the Truth by the total body buzz I get when the Truth has shown up. I know it by the deep resounding, “Yes” I feel in my solar plexus. I know it because the answer is always simple and often the mind responds with, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

It is from here where I bring the mind back into play. If the heart is the part of us that hears the Truth, the mind is the part that puts that truth into action in our lives. It takes what has been found by the heart and makes the changes in the thoughts, behaviors and actions that allow us to live that truth in the manifest world. The mind allows us the manifestation of expressing our truth.

Today, I ask you to stop thinking about how to do something and simply sit in the space of I-Don’t-Know. See what comes. The language of the heart is a powerful elixir to the minds need to understand, change and fix things.

Play in the field of I-Don’t-Know and see what comes to you. If nothing else, the simple act of simply being in the Unknown might give you a peace that there really is nothing to know in this moment other then the sun shining on your face, the air touching your skin and your feet feeling the earth beneath you. None so bad, Aye?