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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @VipassanaBoy
by experience do you mean phenomenal arising of any kind?
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Replying to @chagmed @VipassanaBoy
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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