Namaste
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2007-03-08 00:40:43 · 9 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our opinions and views often block our perceptions. They can close our minds to becoming more informed. Once we firmly believe in something we aren't open to learning other viewpoints and immediately dismiss them as wrong. So, if we cease our opinions we are open to the truth.
Do I believe it? I do but I also believe that the process of seeking the truth may diminish our opinions or change them so it could work either way.
2007-03-08 00:56:26 · answer #1 · answered by CosmicKiss 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the quote makes more sense when you consider what is written a bit further along. It is saying to me that you find truth when you stop holding on to preconceptions that you have. If you come to the table with an idea already firmly planted in your mind you will not really be open to information or the truth.
"If you wish to see the truth
then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike
is the disease of the mind."
From The Hsin Hsin Ming
Verses on the Faith Mind
by Chien-chih Seng-ts'an, The 3rd Zen Patriarch, 606 A.D.
2007-03-08 00:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
It's the acknowledgment that "the truth" is ephemeral. It is not easy to find "the truth," and as often as not "the truth" cannot be known. So it is said "cease to cherish your opinions" because all that we think, essentially, are our opinions. You should cease to cherish them because that will make you willing to change them when confronted with new information.
You thereby come closer to the truth by not seeking it directly, but by being open to changing your mind.
2007-03-08 00:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No- we must seek the truth- not relative truth but absolute truth. How can we as humans trust or opinions or emotions. God's truth will last forever, we and our opinions will not. So I determine to seek truth all of my life, even though at times my thoughts get in the way. Jesus said- "Know the truth and the truth will set you free".
2007-03-08 01:34:38 · answer #4 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Makes some sense, but also not the most proactive way of finding the truth.
2007-03-08 00:45:21 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we are kind of obliged to seek the truth if we want to live enriched lives.
2007-03-08 00:47:34 · answer #6 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As in, if you open your mind to possibilities, the truth will come to you. Yeah, I can buy that.
2007-03-08 00:53:33 · answer #7 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that Zen nonsense is only for people who have far too much time on their hands and lack the capacity to grow a set.
2007-03-08 00:44:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
I'd never heard that before. Thanks for posting it. It reminds me of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
It is not events that upset us, or other people's behavior, but our opinions of these things.
2007-03-08 01:09:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋