GREAT ZEN

I think so too, but... he has also developed a shell of this knowledge and looks at the world through this prism, rejecting everything else that he doesn't know.

- Do you mean that he takes all his thoughts, which he has been learning for many years, as an axiom? Yes, that probably also had an influence.

But by pouring tea into a saucer, IMHO, it is impossible to find out about an excess of rational judgment or an excessive conviction in one's thoughts. Although I understand, the parable is just a convention...