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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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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how Theravāda
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I prefer Theravāda cynicism over Mahāyāna magical thinking ;)
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What if cynicism IS magical thinking?
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Good question...
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Why? I am happy to explain how one can go from impermanence to happiness to completion—but please explain your point first.
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He means that the three marks of existence don’t disappear even if you are enlightened. You just don’t mind any more :)
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Or she! I have no idea and shouldn’t assume, bad Stuart.
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