08-16-2010, 12:00 AM
"I was thinking of how there can be an extremely big event happening in ones life but that a warrior will remain unattached."-from lead post
"Detachment works to avoid the elephant but it doesn't make the elephant go away."- from post 17
Here now is a contradiction about unattachment (the warrior) and detachment (the Zen practioner).
In the first quote its said a warrior is unattached and this is good, in the last quote its said the Zen or whomever is referred to is detached and avoiding the elephant. But detached and unattached are the same thing, so how can both the warrior and Zen Buddhist be spoken of in the same way and yet the stipulation is they are approaching things differently?
"Detachment works to avoid the elephant but it doesn't make the elephant go away."- from post 17
Here now is a contradiction about unattachment (the warrior) and detachment (the Zen practioner).
In the first quote its said a warrior is unattached and this is good, in the last quote its said the Zen or whomever is referred to is detached and avoiding the elephant. But detached and unattached are the same thing, so how can both the warrior and Zen Buddhist be spoken of in the same way and yet the stipulation is they are approaching things differently?