Blyth, Zen and Zen Classics vol 2
The 4th Patriarch went to the mountain where Niutou Farong, 牛頭法融, 594-657 lived. Entering the hermitage he pretended to be afraid of a tiger. Niutou said, “Are you still like that?” “Like what?” said the Patriarch. Niutou came to a realisation on the spot.
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µ Yo͞ok Welcome! Meet me My comment: Part of the problem is I'm confused about what other people are confused about. Some of you ask really good questions, hard questions, but because these aren't my questions I really don't understand.
If I don't like chocolate and that's all there is should I eat it or starve to death? If I like living and not dying isn't that doing what I like? I get this from lots of people.
I like chocolate, so how is this a problem? They don't like chocolate, they don't like dying, so it's a problem for them.
Well, let's straighten it out.
Preference
the fact that you like something or someone more than another thing or person
See it yet?
Preference is liking one thing among otherwise equal things.
So "not liking dying" and "not liking chocolate" aren't equal things, therefore there isn't a preference issue.
Chocolate or vanilla is a preference. Dying in a trolly accident or car accident is a preference.
Fallacy of Thinking
https://effectiviology.com/false-equivalence/
So the issue really is that "liking being alive" is not the same meaning of "like" as "not liking chocolate".
Understanding that, we get to the real issue: Preference is not about liking, it's about demanding one over another among equal things.
Disease of the Mind
In Faith in Mind it says don't set what you like against what you dislike, this is a disease of the mind.
Vanilla instead of chocolate, good instead of evil, these are preferences... living vs dying is not a preference, it is an existential question.
Submitted February 28, 2023 at 07:00AM by ewk https://ift.tt/VSWhcT1
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