Notice the picture below … the center-pole anchoring opposing judgments of ‘true’ or ‘false’, see the whiteness from which all of it arises …
Imagine that the pole stands for a world prior to all human judgments of right and wrong, true or false, this and that, left and right, good vs. bad, self and other … What is that Reality?
Is it not a Truth before all human opinions of truth and falsity, the Truth of a world that ‘just-is-what-it-is’? Maybe the stones know.
Thus, Master Dogen teaches the following as true and right …
Abandon all involvements. Give the myriad things a rest. Do not think of good and bad. Do not care about right and wrong. Stop the driving movement of mind, will, consciousness. Cease intellectual consideration through images, thoughts, and reflections. [Nishijima]Put aside all involvements and suspend all affairs. Do not think “good” or “bad.” Do not judge true or false. Give up the operations of mind, intellect, and consciousness; stop measuring with thoughts, ideas, and views. [SZTP]
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