Pronouncements of truth differ from situational lessons as in the zen cases or even Aesop's Fables, or the Sufi Nasrudin stories. How so? What to notice in the offerings of the Truf Fairy that gives it away? Truth is reduced to abstract principles.
When it comes to old stories about the Buddha, Jesus, even the Dalai Lama, people tend to take these as literal, often with misplaced reverence. So you also have to watch out for the Truth Fairy in stories, because you are likely to be abusing a mythological literature system. The historical evidence is not there, in fact the historical evidence mostly casts doubt.
By the way, usually doubt is distrusted, or considered a special temporary state, as in the Great Doubt, or losing ones faith in Jesus. Like a test from which certainty is still attainable.
Three pounds of flax is attainable. But what zen is often pointing at is not attainable. It does not foster the typical master disciple relationship that religion so highly reveres, which by the way, is more food for the Truf Fairy. Of this I am certain. But why put on on the scale of truth? It can't be measured out, fully described, fully contained. It can be pointed out and recognized. If you want more, you don't want zen, you want a Truf Fairy.
Submitted August 14, 2017 at 02:09AM by rockytimber http://ift.tt/2uDNJpd
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