creating a figuring
Efforting to "figure things out". Do you do it? Do you believe you can really truly figure anything?
I am not naive to think that I have figured anything out really, and I am also sure that I have.
There have been times when I felt I "figured it out" about something, only to see it deconstruct and change over time. It took those experiences to see the value in "figuring it out" though. Had I not "figured it out" I would not have unfigured it which is part of the process to the next figuring. I would have remained in an amateur level of understanding. I think.
Thus I think it is through thinking that we KNOW something, that you can possibly get to knowing you don't know and then you get to do that over and over again. Or you could just land at: there is nothing to figure out and there is nothing to know. Maybe that is the wisest answer and “true enlightenment”. I'm definitely not close to that level if that is ultimate enlightenment.