Joshu and Yunmen used words to point at particular situations that could be seen. They were not asking us to imagine some hypothetical ideal, archetype, principle. Why even call such mental models a VIEW: they have nothing to do with seeing.
World views, paradigms, beliefs, and yes HYPOTHETICAL situtations are the opposite of zen, the opposite of seeing.
There should be a collection of zen stories and sayings that relate just to this matter of taking on life without depending on the filter of imagined matrices, pretend standards. The world is a lot more interesting than our stale word projections.
Zen words can me made stale in mouth of someone creating a standard, but zen words stay fresh when definitions are left behind and you look where they are pointing.
Submitted July 18, 2020 at 06:43AM by rockytimber https://ift.tt/2DO4IhS
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