People who study Zen nowadays are all like this; reading a transformative saying and reaching an insight into the words, they then try to apply it to all sayings, thinking they are all the same. Keeping this in their hearts, they think of it as their own attainment; far from realizing they have lost their minds by entertaining an opinionated understanding, they cling to it and will not let go. What ignoramuses!
How many of you have had transformative experiences and thought “This is it!” Then taking that momentary experience and applying it to your life, idealizing and molding a world view from it?
How many of you are still clinging to ideas like flies on shit and seeking understanding from the mouths of dead men?
And what to make of Foyan the Zen master who insults us all? As he froths at the mouth about students these days, he sounds rather opinionated from where I’m sitting.
Submitted June 20, 2020 at 10:31PM by Owlsdoom https://ift.tt/2ALVmlT
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