Good Advising: Please--I'm just begging for it.

Dear Dialecticians, Readers in Humanity, American Literati
and Colleagues Across the Curriculum

Good Advising Needed.

“It is especially by our “likes and dislikes” John Cage says
that we cut ourselves off from the wider mind (and the wider
world).  Likes and dislikes are the lap dogs of the ego, busy
all the time panting  and barking at the gates of attachment
and aversion and thereby narrowing  perception and
experience.

Furthermore, the ego itself cannot intentionally escape what
the ego does —intention always operates in terms of desire
or aversion—and we therefore need a practice or discipline
of non-intention, a way to make an end-run around the
ego’s habitual operations.”

         From Lewis Hyde, The Trickster Makes This World.

But my likes and dislikes are what define me, a student said--
responding to this quote.  I don't know who I'd be without my
likes & dislikes...

my good & evil-ing, my love & hate, my attraction & repulsion,
my nice & nasty, my approval & disapproval  ratings,  my
assessments and evaluations, my explanations and interpretations,
my reasons why and because & affects.& cheeshead greenbay
packing : all these and so much more make up my who-I-am, &
who-I-root-for fanaticism, lap dogs of my ego panting and barking
at the gates of attachment and aversion  and thereby narrowing
perception and experience &  how could it be otherwise without my
whelm filters? .

Liberal Art, say:

And therefore we need a practice, a discipline of non-intention
to make an end-run around the ego's habitual addictions.
Something like that.  Like, I said. Not is. Something
like a mission impossible.  Call it the practice of
liberal art. Or you put it in your terms.
Advise me.  I'm always just
asking for it.  Begging.

xxxooo, Sam