To spin Buddhism as a way to win is funny to me. It simply isn't defensible by reading primary Buddhist texts. 1/
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Worse still, the desperate clinging to the hope that we will win is exactly what prevents us from the only real comfort available to us while still alive. 2/
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To feel the experience of this moment as it is, without the overlay of hope or despair; this is the only awakeness. 3/
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To equate nibbana with "enlightenment" is a misunderstanding. If we think nibbana is is something that can happen to us, we haven't understood it at all. 4/
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That the quibbling over terminology is in any way ameliorated by... more quibbling over terminology.
You're using a hammer to flatten a dough.