It seems to me that old Zen and Buddhist masters realized the value in keeping one's mouth shut, considering many of them didn't even want their teachings recorded and passed down through time. Zen masters were always telling students to listen. They weren't telling students to talk about their opinions on reality and argue about which opinion is correct and which opinion is incorrect.
From personal experience, I can often be an annoying know-it-all. It's not fun for me or anyone else.
I'd love to know how to engage in a different kind of communication.
Instead of arguing on behalf of my narrow-minded view, and trying to get reality to conform to me, how can I ask more open-ended questions, so that reality can reveal itself to me?
Submitted August 15, 2017 at 07:13AM by Joshus_Frog http://ift.tt/2wZ033R
No comments:
Post a Comment