Thanks for your comments. You are right that talking about achieving enlightenment is gibberish since I've never experienced it.

Hi supertramp. Hope you find something useful here.

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>>>>>>>I think it is a truth true in all world's which have causal interdependence and emergent mental,moral, spiritual experiences. But it is not an ultimate truth in the sense …

Strongly disagree with your premise.

A (very) loose quote from the Vimalikirti-Sutra goes like this:

This issue has pretty much come up constantly throughout all my (admittedly small) experience with Buddhism. The issue generally comes up in some sort of question of, "well if you can't crave th…

I don't mean to be a jerk, but is a kit-kat really food? No nutritious value, so why did you desire/choose it? And who said rice, corn and beans aren't tasty? That's one of my favorites. "Pre…

logically it doesn't affect how one would live their life assuming their goal was happiness, and i hold that it is impossible for anyone's (who isn't enlightened) goal to be otherwise (even if that g…

I have a somewhat nuanced question about buddhist ethics but i'm beginning to feel this particular question of normative ethics is beyond the scope of the buddha's teachings.