Use when stuck trying to 'figure out' something that resists formulation (an intuition, a creative problem, a question of meaning). Use when coaching someone whose effort is blocking the thing they're chasing. Use when deciding whether to keep analyzing or to rest and let understanding arrive.

For peak states, intuitions, and unforced understanding, effort is often the obstacle — the attempt to comprehend the irreducible actively blocks the knowing. 'Be ignorant of him' is not anti-knowledge; it is the claim that the final move is surrender of the effort to grasp. It rescues you from reducing what cannot be reduced and from burning out on questions that don't yield to force.