"Clear Thinking, Don't Know" - The Zen of Innovative Problem-Solving

In the New Haven, Connecticut Kwan Um School of Zen Center both monks and lay-person members focus on the mantra: Clear Thinking, Don't Know. 

If you're spiritually in-tune that should open up pathways to fresh perspectives. 

After participating in that meditation ritual for 18 months I had the Ah-Ha moment that I should and could (that is, had the strength) to exit the New York Metro area. I would relocate my communications business to where there was less age bias. Yes, I had "aged out" of the media capital of the world. That was 2014. 

In 2021, doing the same kind of exercise at the Cochise Kwan Um School in Bisbee, Arizona, I got the "message" that the time was overdue to shift from communications. That would be to my sideline and pro-bono activities in providing tarot readings. Already, since 2008, I had been providing intuitive career coaching.

Given the power of emptying our thought processes of fixed ideas, it's no surprise that in this confusing time The Atlantic presents an article on how to develop the "Don't Know" mind. 

In the tarot that liberation from closed systems is symbolized by The Chariot Card. Some schools of Eastern thought calls that "the sacred pause."



The good news is that meditation is not the only way for cognitive detox. The most receptive students in law school, for example, learn to view a set of facts from multiple angles. They're the ones who develop into the celebrity lawyers. 

I recognized that sense of "Clear Thinking, Don't Know" in an article in SuperLawyer about chair of elite law firm Paul, Weiss Brad Karp. It is during the quiet of the night that he ponders a client's legal issues. And inevitably conjures up a solution probably no one else might have envisioned. I have a hunch that he leverages the same kind of almost mystical reach in establishing the firm's strategies for growth. The old-line term for that is, yes, "genius."

In tarot readings I lift the suffering out of what I label The Box of Mental Torment. We move toward emptying, that is to a new way of experiencing realities. Yes, a cognitive purge. 

This bypasses the romantic hangover of an obsession with feeling. One of my clients, retired military, put it this way: "No one gives a rat's ass what I feel." He adds, "All they see in the world I live in is what I do." 

Emptying unbundles what we choose to do from the oppression of feeling. Unfortunately, the late 1960s cult of feeling hangs on. That mindset is the absolute commitment to the supposed truth of a feeling. Not Knowing introduces the possibility of other kinds of truths. 

Artists, like the best lawyers, never limit their perception. In the Toledo Museum of Art is the meme: See Differently.


The objective of intuitive career coaching is to guide those who have "lost" careers or never been able to start one to manifest possibility. That is, see differently - often very much so - how to earn a good living.

Finding your way in confusing times starts from the inside.

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