The most difficult kind of lies to overcome are the lies in our own mind, lies that we believe are not lies but factual and reliable information. But then who seeded our fertile minds with all these facts many of which are lies?
We actually live in a fictional world in which assumptions work well in this fictional world . Yet we are being deceived. We believe also that the information stored in our brain is absolutely true. But then it's only true relative to the fictional world we are living in.
When we have to look within at the information stored in our own mind, we have to admit that much of it for us is questionable. Some of it or most of it could well be false in the final analysis.
In the big picture, we have so much to learn but we can't possibly learn it if we have a lot of wrong information stored in our brains. And when somebody undertakes the practice of Buddhism or Zen Buddhism does it benefit them to have a mind full of what might be false information?
And what does it mean to have an open mind, just be a sucker or a stooge? In Buddhism we have to look at our mind, not in terms of the information stored in it but how mind really functions and the limits of that functioning where begins our journey to the true world.
According to the Buddha, even although something be thoroughly believed in, it may be empty, void, false; on the other hand, something not thoroughly believed in may be fact, truth, not otherwise (M. ii. 170).
I will consider your remarks when I see your interpretation of Buddhism.
Posted by: TheZennist | May 28, 2022 at 10:26 AM
Resign old man. You're spitting stupidity now. You're making connections which are spurious at the best, and all this in order to playact the Zen master.
Posted by: Daniel Pavlovsky | May 27, 2022 at 03:59 PM