> > You missed the point: there is no 'practice' that can > > bring liberation to man. Enlightenment isn't a > > practice; the enlightened state is not an object of > > cognition. > > yifuxero wrote: > I've not seen any evidence that going around saying > "we're already Enlightened" helps much... > Maybe you haven't read what Shakya the Muni had to say about a 'greed for views'. Enlightenment is a realization, not a metaphysic, an epistemology, a theory of knowledge, or a 'practice' - the enlightened state is a 'realizing' the way things are:
The belief that that one will attain more enlightenment than he or she will attain, or that he or she will attain less enlightenment than he or she will attain, needs to be avoided - it's a stumbling block to realization. "Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from both, Nor without a cause, Does anything whatever, anywhere arise." Mûlamadhyamakakârikâ 1:1: http://tinyurl.com/666v3s
