Hi Johnny_Lim, i can agree that Dhamma does learn us to see the big picture of the hardships of continuing rebirth-proces. But what i, at the moment, do not belief, is that Buddha-Dhamma is some kind of nihilism, which aims only at ending rebirth-process, going out like a flame…pffff….nothing remaining. Sorry, i cannot see this as a nobel goal. I repeat myself.
I also do not belief it is a doctine or a strategy of the Buddha to teach we are not the khandha’s. It is like it actually is. That is core message of the Budddha, i belief.
And knowing this, really seeing this that we are not the khandha’s, is the essence of stream-entry.
But unenlightend mind lacks this kind o understanding. That’s why there is so much suffering. As long as we see in our own life the tendencies to I-making (i am the body, feeling, i am what i experience, in short identification-tendency) and as long there is mine-making (‘whatever i experience is mine’) there is no stream-entry yet. That’s what i have understood from studying the sutta’s. Stream-entry is therefor an enormous breaktrough in our understanding of ourselves. Ending sakkaya ditthi in a practical sense means one attains that kind of understanding which eliminates identification with whatever one experiences and ends the tendency to see that as ‘mine’, mine experiences. It does not end the overall impression “I am”.
But to return to your point, i do not belief it is only a doctrine that we are not the khandha’s. For the enlightend mind this is prooven to be truthful, as it really is. That’s what i belief.
Siebe