The bigger picture in Jeans is that we choose how the future
will be affected. What we believe and so on will affect us all. “The man who
involves himself and who realizes that he is not only the person he chooses to
be, but also a lawmaker who is, at the same time, choosing all mankind as well
as himself, cannot help escape the feeling of his total and deep responsibility.”
Without rules we are nothing. If we do away with God then we make up our own
rules. We are affected to this day by religion and rules. We choose to live by them if we didn't choose to do so our future would be drastically different. and it most likely would affect a lot of people. In the Zen Parables “Muddy Road” and “Learning to be Silent” are both
about rules/choices that they made for themselves or others. “We monk don’t go
near females.” A rule places on himself and the promising to stay quiet
thing. “A Parable” is only similar
because he chose his path either be eaten there jump on a vine and be eaten
later. The four girls chose to not talk and the guy decided that he couldn’t go
near women because monks don’t. Choices we make affects not only us but those around us.
How they are not similar is well for starters ones a parable
and the other isn’t. there isn’t a bigger picture when it came to the parables
but with the other one there was a glimpse of a bigger picture that the author
wanted us to see. The examples in Jeans are more sad and more than slightly problematic. Such as choosing
to leave mother or not when you know she needs you and if something happened to
you it would end up killing her.
The readings are alike, given the fact that they both are meant to make the reader see things from a different level of understanding. Parables gives the story of the monks to show how one of them holds a grudge for the other having helped a female cross a muddy intersection. The one who helped responds to the one who is mad in a way of "why hold on to what happened if it will only prevent you from progressing". The second story of the man who encountered a tiger and started fleeing then realizes that the vine which is keeping him alive from being eaten is being gnawed on by mice, eats a strawberry and enjoyed it. The meaning was that even though he's at the verge of death he still enjoyed the little things in life. The second reading "Existentialism" has similar concepts by showing one how a man can reach his destiny by not only being subjective to himself but rather men in general. If one has a conscious of the future and one sees himself in the future one will prosper, specially if one does it for the sake of men and not for himself. We must firs see how we affect others before we think of ourselves. "What would happen if everyone looked at things this way", would help a man understand if he is doing right or wrong instead of depending on others.
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