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East vs. West
Posted in: UncategorizedIntuition or Intellect?
From Adbusters #107: The Epic Story of Humanity: Part 1, Spring
ZHAO JI / CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH
Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence. In fact, many kinds of cleverness are just further obscurations.
There is a Tibetan saying: “If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.” Patrul Rinpoche said: “The logical mind seems interesting, but it is the seed of delusion.” People can become obsessed with their own theories and miss the point of everything. In Tibet we say:
“Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.”
—Sogyal Rinpoche
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