enlightenment can wait until i'm rich, and the realization that everything i worked for was for nothing and all my goals didnt really matter can wait until i achieve my goals
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Your tweet inspired a few thoughts, allow me to share them:
1. Realizing working for nothing is only painful if you think “nothing” is bad; which enlightenment proves an untrue supposition
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2. Mahayanic enlightenment means realizing the unity between Nirvana and Samsara and consequently seeing you can either commit to one or just fuck off with both and end up in the same place; where you are now
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3. It’s really the fundamental delusion to impose disparities where none actually exist, that is in the seamless flow of reality or the field of the Dharmadhatu and in any of the interdependent originations within it, which is overcome in enlightenment
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Synthesis: enlightenment is just seeing what already is, without making assumptions about it; and you are free to see what already is unconditionally in all situations. Of course you’re also free *not* to see it, because fundamentally you,
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like all beings, already are one with the Unborn Buddha mind.
“Trying to suppress delusion is delusion too. Delusions have no original existence; they’re only things you create yourself by indulging in discrimination.” — Bankei
Delusion has a lot to do with the amount of effort involved in justifying why a thing or any thing needs to happen
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