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How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma”

The Marginalian 08 September 2026 Yesterday
How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma”
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“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,'” the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But despite all we know about the power of liminality and threshold states, we yearn for a firm foothold on one side of every blurry line and move through the fundamental mystery of life armored in opinions, mistaking the magnitude of
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