I've been reading about this philosopher of science called Paul Feyerabend. His whole thing was people make a lot of assumptions when they talk about science and they don't even realize they are making them. He would later said about the book he wrote:
One of my motives for writing Against Method was to free people from the tyranny of philosophical obfuscators and abstract concepts such as “truth”, “reality”, or “objectivity”, which narrow people’s vision and ways of being in the world. Formulating what I thought were my own attitude and convictions, I unfortunately ended up by introducing concepts of similar rigidity, such as “democracy”, “tradition”, or “relative truth”. Now that I am aware of it, I wonder how it happened. The urge to explain one’s own ideas, not simply, not in a story, but by means of a “systematic account”, is powerful indeed.
That made me think about zen and how there's a lot of bad teachers out there. Even when you do it in good faith, it's really hard to help people without tying them to concepts or practices. Even Buddha ran into that problem (at least the zen masters' version of Buddha).
I'm not as smart as zen masters as to be able to talk about zen without tying people down, but as far as I can tell what Feyerabend tried to do is what zen does on a much bigger scale. Maybe I'm just mixed up as well. Anyway, I just found this interesting and wanted to say hi to everyone, hope everyday IS a good day for you.
Submitted September 17, 2020 at 10:43PM by astroemi https://ift.tt/3iBggVg
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