Okay , I ' m hoping you protested all of the previous entertainment appointments ! If not , where were you ? <| sep |> Depends on the location . My local PD has never shot . well anyone to my knowledge and its not like we dont have people of color here . My uncle , who lives a few blocks over , is black and has never had a problem with our police . Our cops are pretty cool . <| sep |> For states with electronic voting and no paper trail like PA , VA , TX , FL , KY , TN , and IN it ' s almost instant . But it tells you nothing . <| sep |> Why does Destiny need to be emulated ? <| sep |> Now , let ' s continue with Huangbo When you happen upon someone whohas no understanding , you must claim to know nothing . He may be delighted by his discovery of some ' way to Enlightenment ' yet if you allow yourselves to be persuadedby him , you will experience no delight at all , but sufferboth sorrow and disappointment What have such thoughtsas his to do with the study of Zen ? Even if you do obtainfrom him some trifling ' method ', it will only be a thoughtconstructed dharma having nothing to do with Zen Thus , Bodhidharma sat rapt in meditation before a wall he didnot seek to lead people into having opinions . Meditation is one of those trifling methods and thus has nothing to do with Zen , as Huangbo says . Did Bodhidharma sit in front of a wall to set an example we should follow , or to teach people about meditation ? No , he did it to not lead us into opinions . Such as meditation is important or meditation is not important . It ' s not about showing us how important meditation is , but about how important it was to Bodhidharma to not lead ustowards wrong opinions . When you practice mindcontrol zen , sitza in the proper position , stay perfectly tranquil , and do not permit the least movement of your minds to disturb you . This alone is what is called liberation . Well , this is obviously pro meditation . But I think we need to see it in context of the rest of Huangbo ' s sermons , in which he saidthat methods in general and sometimes specifically dhyana are not what he is teaching and that teachings about dhyana are to attract the dull of wit . Different parts of the texts were given to different audiences , possibly the question leading to the answer you quoted came from a person dull of wit . Another possibility is , that Huangbo ' s teaching was flexible and always in accord with the situation . For some disciples , meditation might actually be the right thing to do , so that ' s what Huangbo told them . In general though , I think it ' s obvious that meditation was not a primary concern of Huangbo .