Reply To: Tilakhanna & Fear

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Maybe try thinking of your body as your car and the mind as the driver. Just because it gets dinged up doesn’t mean the driver is getting hurt. Treat it like a car, if it damaged, repair it…until you get to the point where you no longer care about it and look forward to putting it down.

What has helped me is including the 10 sanyojanas in my metta bhavana, especially, sakkaya ditthi. “May myself and all being be free from the apayas forever by removing the 3 of the 10 sanyojanas, that of sakkaya ditthi, the belief that I am the body and I need to keep it beautiful…”. As I say that, I’m reminded that the body w/o the mind is an inert thing and what I am is more like what is going on in background of thoughts. I realize that once an Arahant, what one is is not even citta vithis (thoughts), rupa or dhamma, etc., but that is as close to Nibbana as I can get right now.