Whether you be walking or sitting, you must restrain all discriminatory thoughts from one moment to the next. If you do not, you will never escape the chain of rebirth.
Zen Teaching of Huang Po - p 126. J. Blofeld
Discriminatory: making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things
He mentions specifically restraining discriminatory thoughts, not all thought. What makes a thought a "discriminatory thought"?
What is this chain of rebirth? Is it a metaphor for breaking free of the habitual thought track we find ourselves bound to throughout the day? Or is he speaking literally. Maybe we repeatedly replay our lives again and again like AI in TV show Westworld until we "break the chains".
Now accepting interpretations. Peace, love and bacon to you all.
Submitted June 29, 2017 at 10:58AM by SeQuenceSix http://ift.tt/2s45ZXo
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