Siebe:
Thank you:
“This state of complete detachment cannot be expressed in words, but an arahant knows this state.
This completely detached state of mind cannot be called ‘a being’ anymore, it is beyond the sphere of personal existence. It is also not ‘a being’ who experiences this state. It is the nature of mind which does. ”
To me, not being an Arahant, this does away with all notions of individuality : ‘cannot be called a being’, ‘beyond the sphere of personal existence’, and ‘ it is the nature of mind which (experiences this state)…and in the absence of individuality, of feeling, of perception etc there is no interaction of any kind between the beings there…no,not even the idea of ‘beingS’ there is valid, for there are no individual beingS, only Being. Shades of Mahāyāna!: absorption into the One, dissolution, evaporation…even the ESSENCE of a particular Buddha would be gone There, all merged into the One, no-mind, just undifferentiated Mind. Where is the sense of ‘being alive.? Where is the very basis of it? There remains none.
So I would go no further into this, if I may. It is far more important to concentrate on THE task at hand – and time is running out fast, I feel.
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