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**xkQCaS4w** · 05-31-2011, 10:16 PM

Well that IS interesting. I must have things all backwards then, because from my thicket of views, suffering, distress, despair, & fever is not what I experience at all, and in fact, disenchantment, dispassion, cessation & calm, is what seems to be increasing constantly. Plus feeling really happy most of the time. As for direct knowledge, full Awakening and Nibbana, I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Kris' answer applies here too:

This method relies on concocting a 'view' that things are empty of inherent existence, then employing that view to lessen or deny the impact of afflictions. This is already removing oneself from what is actually happening and employing a 'fix' to skirt the issue. But if that helps you, then that's fine.

But if you are so disenchanted dispassionate, and calm, Fio, why do you find it so necessary to trot out mahayana speculative views in the Theravada forum, and go on and on about their superiority over the Buddha's own liberative teachings, to which they are completely irrelevant?

05-31-2011, 10:16 PM	#24
xkQCaS4w Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	Well that IS interesting. I must have things all backwards then, because from my thicket of views, suffering, distress, despair, & fever is not what I experience at all, and in fact, disenchantment, dispassion, cessation & calm, is what seems to be increasing constantly. Plus feeling really happy most of the time. As for direct knowledge, full Awakening and Nibbana, I guess I'll just have to wait and see. Kris' answer applies here too: This method relies on concocting a 'view' that things are empty of inherent existence, then employing that view to lessen or deny the impact of afflictions. This is already removing oneself from what is actually happening and employing a 'fix' to skirt the issue. But if that helps you, then that's fine. But if you are so disenchanted dispassionate, and calm, Fio, why do you find it so necessary to trot out mahayana speculative views in the Theravada forum, and go on and on about their superiority over the Buddha's own liberative teachings, to which they are completely irrelevant?
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