This is a silly false dichotomy that many of "zen" teachings keep repeating. "I want to know the perfect complete truth + human beings can not know perfect com

This is a silly false dichotomy that many of "zen" teachings keep repeating. "I want to know the perfect complete truth + human beings can not know perfect complete truth = therefore truth is unknowable and we should give up trying." This is dumb. Just because you don't get to be perfect, doesn't mean it's pointless to try to do better. We are all flawed, but we are less flawed than we were 2000 years ago, and that kind of progress is worth striving for, even if we'll never know the ultimate truth. Also striving to be better and knowing as much of "the truth" as possible is valuable for it's own sake, "gaining stuff" and being "beloved" is not what makes truth worth pursuing.