The teacher never asked that student to join him on a walk ever again. I would do well to remember this story, before spouting off nonsense about aesthetic analogy and contemplative traditions.
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Sure, it might generally make sense to treat people kindly and compassionately, and to act with equanimity and good intent and so on... But what if it doesn't, right now? What do you do then? Nothing is true (except this, and also that), everything is permitted (but not that).
Yes, I'd generally favour this sort of interpretation, partly because of the way I've been taught. One of my teachers is generally very warm, kind, loving.....the other can be pretty grouchy, and gets emphatic when people mistake warm fuzzies and gentleness as the point.
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I mean, a big part of how I got into meditation was basically having my face shoved into to the all-encompassing chaos of my experience. Wouldn't work for everyone, but at that time, being shown that my darkest emotion is just as open and empty as the happiest fuzzies, was good.
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There is a famous stoic anecdote (don't have time to dig out the source) about a man who loses his house, wife and children in a siege or something like that. When asked by his friends if he is not sad, he replies: "And why? I lost nothing that is mine."
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I suppose if people can pull that off without just suppressing emotions, that's powerful. I would guess the problem sneaks in where people mistake a result as a practice instructions, and end up just tying themselves in knots.
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