For example, to remove a thorn in your finger you use another thorn; then you throw both of them away. But if you keep the second thorn which was used to remove the first one, you’ll surely be stuck again.
To remove ignorance, knowledge is necessary, but finally both must dissolve into Reality. Your Self is without ignorance, without knowledge.
…If you keep the second thorn, which means knowledge, even if it is a golden thorn, you’ll be stuck [by the second thorn]
T. O. M. s comment..
Most people stick to this second thorn of knowledge, and think that this is the way of zen, not realising they have just replaced one set of concepts for another, maybe being even further deluded by the idea of supreme knowledge.
The teachings of the ancients were just a means to an end, so why do people stick to the vehicle, and think they have arrived, having never left the passenger seat?
Peace.
Submitted September 01, 2020 at 02:14PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/2YSKkUp
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