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Human, student, non-Buddhist Buddhist, intellectual masochist. Confident only of my own ignorance. Don't believe anything I say.

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    1. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Jul 6

      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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    2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Jul 6
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      Doesn't matter if you're looking at the sun or in the midst of an orgasm.

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    3. Stuart Valentine‏ @VipassanaBoy Jul 6
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      Only (I know you know this) it’s the reaction to / relationship with conscious experience that is the real problem.

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      Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Jul 6
      Replying to @VipassanaBoy

      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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        2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Jul 6
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @VipassanaBoy

          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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        3. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Jul 6
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @VipassanaBoy

          by experience do you mean phenomenal arising of any kind?

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        4. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Jul 6
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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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        5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Jul 6
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed @VipassanaBoy

          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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        6. Chris Billows‏ @Doc_Surge Jul 6
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed @VipassanaBoy

          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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        2. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Jul 6
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @VipassanaBoy

          how Theravāda

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Jul 6
          Replying to @chagmed @VipassanaBoy

          I prefer Theravāda cynicism over Mahāyāna magical thinking ;)

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        4. Jason Snyder‏ @cognazor Jul 6
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed @VipassanaBoy

          What if cynicism IS magical thinking?

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        5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Jul 6
          Replying to @cognazor @chagmed @VipassanaBoy

          Good question...

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        2. Viktor Arvidsson  🕊‏ @anotherday____ Jul 7
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @VipassanaBoy

          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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        3. Stuart Valentine‏ @VipassanaBoy Jul 8
          Replying to @anotherday____ @Failed_Buddhist

          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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        4. Stuart Valentine‏ @VipassanaBoy Jul 8
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          Or she! I have no idea and shouldn’t assume, bad Stuart.

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