“Master ​Dizang asked ​Fayan,
“Where have you come from?”
​Fayan replies, “I pilgrimage aimlessly,”
“What is the purpose of your pilgrimage?” asks ​Dizang.
“I don’t know,” replies ​Fayan.
“Not knowing is most intimate,” remarked ​Dizang.
At that, ​Fayan experienced great enlightenment.”

These Discovery Questions may be helpful in working with this koan:

 Why is not knowing most intimate?

How would you express or describe this experience of your Essential Nature without conceptual understanding?

How might not-knowing offer a rudder or a place of refuge in chaos?

By the way the image you are viewing is of my close friend, Mayumi Oda, artist, environmental advocate, teacher. Mayumi lives and works in the world of not-knowing. It is the source of her creative life force even into her mid 80s. She recognizes the sacred in everyday things– vegetables, earth, body, colors, the sky—all become portals. In the uncertainty of not-knowing every moment is fresh and alive.