Zen vs Morality Jerkers: Proving that "jerkers" are religious bigots

There are two hugely famous examples of Zen versus Morality Jerkers in Zen texts:

Morality refers to the set of standards that enable people to live cooperatively in groups. It’s what societies determine to be “right” and “acceptable.” ...Morality isn’t fixed. What’s considered acceptable in your culture might not be acceptable in another culture. Geographical regions, religion, family, and life experiences all influence morals.

Example 1: Dongshan

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases#wiki_dongshan_questions_to_death

Setting the scene: Medical Fraud

Much like in r/Zen, Dongshan encounters a guy passing himself off as a Zen Master. Like it or not, in Zen culture this is the same as passing yourself off as a Doctor today. Dongshan is naturally pretty furious, as any of us would be, at encounter someone passing themselves off as a doctor. We all saw this happen during the Covid pandemic when millions of people died unnecessarily because of fake doctors.

Manners

The lying fraud coward tries to put Dongshan down with the phrase, "Such aggressiveness will not do", which really means "U R an aggressive jerk", which is something we hear ALL THE TIME in /r/Zen whenever a religious person is called out for anti-historicism or racial/religiously bigoted claims about Zen. These Morality Jerkers want to censor any speech that is offensively factual.

Example 2: Miaozong

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases#wiki_miaozong_in_the_master.27s_quarters

Setting the scene: Slutshaming

Who cares whether a woman stays in a Zen Master's room? Are we concerned with enlightenment or rules of morality? This is particular interesting because of the religion in the West that claims to be Soto Zen but is really Zazen Dogenism, a cult from Japan... since Dogenism has the highest ranked sex predators of any cult in US history.

Is Dahui a sex predator? This is a reasonable concern. But if your concern stems from following "rules of propriety", then you aren't studying Zen. So we know right away that the head monk is going to get his ass handed to him... but by whom? That's the really awesome part. Dahui says "go have an interview with the lady". Dahui isn't worried about what she'll say at all.

Morality Jerkers: Authoritarian bullies

It turns out that Miaozong can speak for herself just find, which the priest would have known if he'd talked to her first. His morality rules entirely fail in the face of her sincere commitment to a culture the head monk does not understand despite living in it.

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µ ^Yo͞ok Welcome! ^{Meet me} My comment: As always, when somebody says there is something "good" you should do for enlightenment but can't quote Zen Masters?

It's like them telling you they can cure your covid by getting you to drink bleach.

They aren't Zen students... they are Morality Jerkers. Just like Christians burning witches or Protestants burning Christians, Morality Jerkers want to force their beliefs on others. The kicker is... Morality Jerkers just make @#$$ up... they are bigots w/o a bible.

Submitted February 09, 2023 at 08:43AM by ewk https://ift.tt/WvUk8AH