"Supposing it were possible to have deep, sound sleep forever. Would you want it? If one does not like the kind of happiness that comes with sound sleep, it may be difficult to have a preference for nibbāna." 1/
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That's how I see it, yes. Big idea was "don't get born and you'll be fine." Bonus teaching was "here's how to mitigate the disaster you currently find yourself in."
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Maybe somewhere in the universal mind we are causing these "births" we see "here," in the same sense that you go to the psychologist to figure out that you're in fact the same person that's causing and suffering some sort of misery. And since it's you doing it, you can change it.
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I doubt we have any agency at all. We can pretend to change it, and we should.
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All we can really do is hope that causes and conditions come together in a configuration that nudges us toward awakening. There's no agency in the sense that we like to believe.
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