This was an allusion to a Buddhist teaching. If you pay close attention, you will notice that every conscious experience is marked by impermanence, dissatisfaction, and emptiness.
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Only (I know you know this) it’s the reaction to / relationship with conscious experience that is the real problem.
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Yes, though with a slight nit-pick: the problem is actually not understanding those three characteristics. But... understanding the three characteristics still doesn't make them go away. As long as experience exists, there will be impermanence, dissatisfaction, and emptiness.
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In other words, the problem is thinking that you can somehow escape dukkha while still retaining your experience. If you accept that this is it, then you can stop fretting over it and move on.
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by experience do you mean phenomenal arising of any kind?
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Yes, all sensory experience. I would include thoughts, etc., as they are always accompanied by sensations in the body.
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The spiritual trap seems to be this: One learns that experience is unsatisfactory and that grasping leads to suffering. Thus, one begins seeking a kind of experience that is not unsatisfactory (i.e. enlightenment). Problem is, that's a fantasy.
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Which is why emptiness as a practice means to not take anything, even enlightenment so seriously and to appreciate our delusions as waves from the mind. It’s let go, not let’s go.
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