RedTailHawk on Nostr: Important point. It's a good way of demonstrating that attachment is the cause of all ...

Important point. It's a good way of demonstrating that attachment is the cause of all suffering.

I first learned that trick from reading the book "Where the Red Fern Grows". That's how the kid caught the initial raccoon that he used to train his hunting dogs.

It's a beautiful metaphor for the closed minded dogmatist who has "received" something already (has had beliefs installed into them), but their stubborn refusal to relinquish their grasp of those beliefs entraps them.

I typically say that the closed minded dogmatist is the architect and warden of his/her own prison.