Seungcan, the third patriarch of Zen says:
"When deluded, you create peace and chaos, when enlightened, there is no good or bad."
"All dualistic extremes come from subjective considerations." "why bother to grasp them? Gain, loss, right, wrong; let them go all at once."
I can't find the quote right now, but he also mentioned somewhere that having a "preference" is an obstacle.
I don't get this. Even if we "understand," I think we are naturally wired to like something and dislike others.
When we are tortured, we dislike that.
When we don't sleep for three days in a row, we dislike that.
We prefer good leaf tea over cheap tea bags.
Zen masters are human beings like us, and I think they have their own likes and dislikes, preferences too in their minds.
What does it mean to let them all go?
Submitted July 25, 2022 at 08:26PM by GreenSagua https://ift.tt/5viJTAU
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