Mahayana ultimative or relative?
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Is it useful to seek for, or believe in a ultimate enlightenment a kind of ultimate being?
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It is useful to practice and reduce or (even better) eliminate papanca ("monkey mind").
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Re: Mahayana ultimative or relative?
Greetings,
Maitri,
Retro.
TMingyur wrote:It is useful to practice and reduce or (even better) eliminate papanca ("monkey mind").
Maitri,
Retro.
Live in concord, with mutual appreciation, without disputing, blending like milk and water, viewing each other with kindly eyes.
Re: Mahayana ultimative or relative?
Is anyone advocating a completely blank mind? If not, what does eliminating papanca lead to? If the answer is insight, how does eliminating papanca leads to insight?
Re: Mahayana ultimative or relative?
Insight (vipaśyanā) results in freedom from conceptual proliferation (niṣprapañca). This freedom from conceptual proliferation is noble gnosis (āryajñāna) which is devoid of apperception (saṃjñā) of existence or nonexistence (bhāvābhāva).Sherab wrote:If not, what does eliminating papanca lead to? If the answer is insight, how does eliminating papanca leads to insight?
All the best,
Geoff
Re: Mahayana ultimative or relative?
Is there a point where we can see the different between papanca and insight? In a relative or ultimate way?
Just that!
Re: Mahayana ultimative or relative?
All differentiation of phenomena is relative. The entire path is relative. No phenomenon is ultimately established. Realizing this results in freedom from conceptual proliferation (niṣprapañca).Hanzze wrote:Is there a point where we can see the different between papanca and insight? In a relative or ultimate way?
All the best,
Geoff