The wisdom of uncertainty is that there is no certainty. That is a basic fact of life and to accept it is to avoid a lot of grief. I always have some amount of awareness of uncertainty which helps me be more accepting and calm in my living. Though I have awareness of nonperfection, I am perfectionistic, which causes me unnecessary stress. What helps me live in the trusting mind, though imperfectly, is to remind myself of basic age old facts of life that Jack Kornfield cites, especially that we never know for sure, there is no permanence, we don't fully control anything, there is always some measure of success and failure in our actions, commit to right action, focus on process and not outcome, outcome is out of our control, let go of outcome and trying to control it. What helps me live in the trusting mind is my experience that when I do I feel satisfaction, peace, ease.
On Aug 22, 2020 David Doane wrote :