If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! Tùy chọn

[justmevn]

"The Truth does not make people free. Facts do not change attitudes. If the guru is dogmatic, all that he evokes in his pilgrim/disciples is their stubbornly resistant insistence on clinging to those unfortunate beliefs that at least provide the security of known misery, rather than openness to the risk of the unknown or the untried. That is why that Renaissance Magus, Paracelsus, warned that the guru should avoid simply revealing "the naked truth. He should use images, allegories, figures, wondrous speech, or other hidden, roundabout ways."

Chân lý không làm con người ta tự do. Các sự kiện có thực không làm thay đổi thái độ. Nếu vị đạo sư giáo điều, võ đoán, tất cả những gì mà ông ta gợi lên ở kẻ hành hương/đệ tử của mình là sự chống đối bướng bỉnh, cứ khăng khăng bám víu vào những niềm tin bất như ý nhưng ít nhất cũng đem lại sự an toàn của những khổ đau đã biết (quen thuộc), hơn là rộng mở với sự rủi ro của điều chưa biết hoặc điều chưa thử. Đó là lý do tại sao Renaissance Magus, Paracelsus đã cảnh báo rằng vị đạo sư nên tránh hé lộ chỉ "sự thật trần trụi". Ông ta nên sử dụng những hình ảnh, phóng dụ, hình tượng, những bài nói lạ lùng, hay những cách quanh co, che giấu khác.


Trích: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! của Sheldon Kopp

"No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Thus the Zen Master warns his disciple: If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!”

[justmevn]

Once upon a time, there was a man who strayed from his own country into the world known as the Land of Fools. He soon saw a number of people flying in terror from a field where they had been trying to reap wheat.
"There is a monster in that field," they told him. He looked, and saw that it was a water-melon.
He offered to kill the "monster" for them. When he had cut the melon from its stalk, he took a slice and began to eat it. The people became even more terrified of him than they had been of the melon. They drove him away with pitchforks, crying, "He will kill us next, unless we get rid of him."
It so happened that at another time another man also strayed into the Land of Fools, and the same thing started to happen to him. But, instead of offering to help them with the "monster," he agreed with them that it must be dangerous, and by tiptoeing away from it with them he gained their confidence. He spent a long time with them in their houses until he could teach them, little by little, the basic facts which would enable them not only to lose their fear of melons, but even to cultivate them themselves.