(March 20, 2015 at 8:07 am)whateverist Wrote:(March 20, 2015 at 7:29 am)Ben Davis Wrote: Is the whole point of your post that we shouldn't think and that 'freedom from judging' is somehow a payoff for that?! How do you even tie your shoelaces...
No I'm pretty sure the point of the post was to lull the bull to sleep rather than address the horns.
Thinking is a tool for the practical things of life like fixing a toilet or making spaghetti. It creates all kinds of problems when we use it to define people.
An example would be looking at the definition of a "rose" in a dictionary. It gives me an "idea" of a rose, but I don't know a rose until I have seen it in the garden, smelled it, touched it and felt it. Even then, I don't know a rose in its "isness." Much more so when I identify a person as "Christian" or "Athiest," "Gay" or "Straight."
Right now as you read this, you have formed an opinion of who I am, what I am like and so forth. But actually, all you are experiencing are these words on your monitor/phone/tablet. They are not me anymore than your posts are you. However, we use them to form a concept/idea of a person and then, usually as a result of past experience/conditioning, form a judgement about him/her as "friend or foe," "threat or safe." Dualism always pops up as the adversary...which was the original meaning of the word "Satan."
"Don't seek the truth...just don't cherish opinions"
-Some Old Sage Whose Name I Forget
