What is your take on this proverb on "seeking truth"?

Question

Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.
-- Zen Proverb

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Answer 1

i like that.

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Answer 2

It's a good one. I think it is saying that we need not go and seek the truth but we should stop being stubborn or opinionated and instead be open to other people's opinion.

Answer 3

The Holy Bible tells us over and over to seek knowledge,to seek the truth,I spend My life doing that.

Answer 4

Cease or negate or stop with one's opinions is very good to seek
truth, but one has to attain positive truth in opposition to negation.

NA=NOT and in Vedic philosophy it is known as NETI=NOT THIS.
Ceasing to cherish one's imperfect opinions is only 50% and the next 50% is to know the perfect truth.

The phrase atan-nirasana refers to the DISCARDING of that which is IRRELEVANT. (ATAT means "that which is NOT a fact.") Brahman is sometimes described as Asthulam Ananv Ahrasvam Adirgham, "that which is NOT large and NOT small, NOT short and NOT long." (Brhad-aranyaka Upaniaad 5.8.8) Neti neti: "It is NOT this, it is NOT that." But what is it? In describing a pencil, one may say, "It is NOT this; it is NOT that," but this does NOT tell us WHAT IT IS. This is called definition by NEGATION. In Bhagavad-gita, Krishna also explains the soul by giving negative definitions. Na jayate mriyate va: "It is NOT born, NOR does it die. You can hardly understand more than this." But what is it? It is eternal. Ajo nityah sasvato 'yam purano na hanyate hanyamane sarire: "It is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. It is not slain when the body is slain." (Bg. 2.20) In the beginning the soul is difficult to understand, and therefore Krishna has given negative definitions:
nainam chindanti sastrani nainam dahati pavakah
na cainam kledayanty apo na socayati marutah
"The soul can never be cut into pieces by any weapon, nor can it be burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." (Bg. 2.23) Krishna says, "It is not burned by fire." Therefore, one has to imagine what it is that is not burned by fire. This is a negative definition.

The above is from the purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam(10.13.57), by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of ISKCON,(International Society for Krishna Consciousness).
Belwo is some excerpts from his teachings related to this.

His impersonality therefore is a negation of His materiality, but not a denial of His transcendental personality.

The impersonal conception of the supreme truth is just a process of negation of the form of the Lord from the mundane conception of the supreme truth.

It is said in the revealed scriptures that the Lord has no mundane form; therefore persons with a poor fund of knowledge conclude that He must be formless. They cannot distinguish between the mundane form and the spiritual form. According to them, without a mundane form one must be formless. This conclusion is also mundane because formlessness is the opposite conception of form. Negation of the mundane conception does not establish a transcendental fact.

Knowledge of the Supreme Absolute Truth does not necessitate negation of the material manifestation but understanding of spiritual existence as it is. To think that because material existence is realized in forms therefore spiritual existence must be formless is only a negative material conception of spirit. The real spiritual conception is that spiritual form is not material form.

Becoming detached from material things does not mean becoming inert altogether, as men with a poor fund of knowledge think. Naiskarma means not undertaking activities that will produce good or bad effects.Negation does not mean negation of the positive. Negation of the nonessentials does not mean negation of the essential. Similarly, detachment from material forms does not mean nullifying the positive form.

Then he goes on to say that by Bhakti one realizes the positive form and when the positive form is realized, the negative forms are automatically eliminated. He further says that the Bhakta (devotee) by developing bhakti, with the application of positive service to the positive form, the bhakta naturally becomes detached from inferior things, and he becomes attached to superior things. Bhakti(devotion) which is the supermost occupation of the living being, leads the Bhakta out of material sense enjoyment.

Answer 5

nice digi
i dont want to seek the truth... but i seek knowledge
in seeking knowledge , i have to let go of opinion

Answer 6

Silly. Opinions are like noses, we all have one.

Answer 7

beautiful
namaste