Working with Uncertainty: A Guided Exercise

Day 9: Experience a powerful thought experiment of waking in complete darkness, exploring how attachment seeks certainty, aversion pushes away fear, and embracing ignorance becomes the key to moving skillfully through unknown territory.

The Wisdom Within Us brings together a curated selection of wisdom and practices from Lion’s Roar member workshops. If a teacher mentions other sessions in their video, they are referring to their complete workshop series, available to Lion’s Roar members.

Reflections

  • How was this exercise for you?
  • What did the darkness exercise reveal about how you experience uncertainty?

About the teacher

Koun Franz is a Soto Zen priest. He leads practice at Thousand Harbours Zen in Halifax, Nova Scotia.