Amanda/truth and enlightenment

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>Amanda:

>Speak your own truth.

>

>It is the zen koan

>"Speak one word of zen and I will take my hat

>off for you".

>My answer to this is for the moment:

>"One word is as good as the other. What is

>not zen and what is ?"

>Nevertheless, let me also say that the wind

>in the trees speak the truth, the hairs on the

>cat's back speak the truth, the pigments on the

>fish'es scales speak the truth.

>

 

D: Certainly, we each speak our truth.

And yes, the wind speaks the wind's truth.

Yes, in a sense, each and every word

spoken is truth.

 

However, discrimination is also important.

If a drunk surgeon wants to give me heart

surgery and says he is fine, do I then

allow him to give me anaesthesia?

If I am a bank president and a stranger

walks in, says she knows she owns the

bank and I should give her all the money,

do I give her all the money?

A person cuts on his arm with a razor telling me,

as blood begins to flow, that this is fine

because he is Jesus and is atoning for the world's

sins -- do I do nothing to help him because his

truth is that everything is fine?

 

Obviously, there are many examples to make this point.

Discrimination is necessary.

Each of us needs to use all our awareness to discriminate

clearly, to not be fooled, either by ourselves or others'

words, ideas, projections.

If we don't discriminate, we may be convinced to drink

kool-aid laced with strychnine because everyone around

us knows that this is the way to the Great Spaceship

in the Sky :-)

 

Another Zen saying is "great doubt yields great enlightenment" :-)

 

Love,

Dan