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Interesting, so you suggest radical acceptance, cultivated emotions and non-reactivity for after the subject-object paradigm shift? Thus just as before, then you'll need a hell-of-a-guardian-angel to survive (or not-survive as a self subject, depending on your view). 'Be to yourself like you are to others?' Love others like yourself? Now where do you draw the line, give and do work and distribute responsibilities emotions/feelings and blame/areas of personal responsibility, between healthily enough but flawed adults? someone being used to more responsibility will go down the same path all along, no? You rely on the light having affinity with the shadow and the shadow protecting the light? Lot's of trust in the universe not being lazy and relying on coincidences, eh?

Just curious: where exactly do you draw the line? I tend to favor your second opinion / quote from another thread here: Often enough the receiver is the interpreter of the message and can choose between responsibility and/or feeling blamed. The first seems mature, the second emotional (in my opinion). The questioner might just be looking for a neutral intention/causation chain explanation of your perspective and its you who mistakenly assume you are being blamed on a guilt tableau. added: and or at the same time give you advice that others won't handle the circumstances-causes-effects imposed upon themselves by you so well as they did and that you and or others might face severe consequences not being wished upon you or upon others by them. After all, on a certain level or through a certain perspective there's no difference between cause effect, observer and observed, still, some circumstances, causal or not, may require understanding for dissolution or healing or recovery of trauma. Few people seem to be able to show affinity as a different means to understanding. Mature people wish for affinity and peace in their interactions, but are understood falsely at times to be accusatory. So where do you draw your line?

In shadows where thoughts collide, the ink spills forth, a restless tide. Unruly whispers, tangled and raw, echo the chaos, a silent law. Each stroke a stumble, a dance unplanned, like wandering steps on shifting sand. Yet in the mess, a truth may gleam, from the depths of the mind, a fractured dream. So let the words spill, let them roam, for in the wild, we find our home. Through the clumsy, the awkward, the flawed, we carve our path, and in that, we're awed. (spontaneous poetry by ChatGPT created to @Nungalis last haiku.) & bye for now.

an illusion, ?

hello, it might be my lack of good schooling, but I wondered if there are some other methods of exegesis / interpretation of texts in the asian cultural hemisphere? some stuff comes naturally to me, and others just stays cryptic, no matter which interpretation I use. could you list your methods? thanks.

Could we please get a lightbulb emoji to react with 💡and one that says “there’s more to your post than meets the surface” … I would propose a stone cast in the water drawing circles or the like.⛲️ The lightbulb is different than thanks. Thanks to me is insightful teaching. Lightbulb is something that is interesting but not necessarily path wise and refers to something that has been bothering one for a long time in the dark. Wow is not the “deep!” reaction. Wow is more shock or surprise. Not the deep contemplation or a impulse that influences and gets stronger with time. I don’t want to appear confused all so often!

I find this insightful and it comes as a confirmation of some conclusions I made for myself, as working hypothesis. Just walk your path.

Cutting through means realizing there are none or one. Doesn’t make much difference at that level. but what’s to take from there to functionality? nothing. Can’t make anyone understand it only if they have experienced it themselves. Compassion without an I or with an I. … it leaves straw dogs ? I’m lost here… can someone help please?

What about the diamond sutra and/or the heart sutra? Is it implied there indirectly or am I mis-interpreting? @Taoist Texts pls don’t leave me hanging here… is that correlated to what @stirling meant by reactions to it could either be the recognition of “I AM” or “emptiness/possibilities”? people need to get outta their diamond cage @Mark Foote ? what am I missing here?

Where can I find a text that explains the two truth doctrine in simple words? Near to the original? thanks