There is another interpretation, a little more difficult, but I think it yields much better results. There’s a gatha by Huineng that breaks away from the traditional thinking in Zen, where when applied here would sound something like if there is no one to ask who you are how can it tell you who you are? This can be varied a few different ways, but they all get to the same point. Any attempt to not be defined by the world is in itself a way to be defined by the world. It’s a double bind, regardless of choice it has the same outcome. The way out is not that simple.
The quote make a good appeal to us, but deep down does not really achieve much. It does serve a good starting point.
albertbeauchard t1_j8p9orq wrote
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There is another interpretation, a little more difficult, but I think it yields much better results. There’s a gatha by Huineng that breaks away from the traditional thinking in Zen, where when applied here would sound something like if there is no one to ask who you are how can it tell you who you are? This can be varied a few different ways, but they all get to the same point. Any attempt to not be defined by the world is in itself a way to be defined by the world. It’s a double bind, regardless of choice it has the same outcome. The way out is not that simple.
The quote make a good appeal to us, but deep down does not really achieve much. It does serve a good starting point.
https://iep.utm.edu/huineng/
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