Knowing More Reliably

The knowing that is unknowing is arguably the highest knowing of all

Mystical knowing, which we are used to seeing as unclear and uncertain, is actually more reliable than deductive knowing. —Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, SJ¹

The Jesuit father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle (1898-1990) traveled from his native Germany to Japan to bring Christianity to the Japanese. But instead of just being a missionary, he found Zen there, and discerning…