Post by beeblebrox: Tue May 24, 2011 3:19 pm : Nibbāna is the end of greed (desire, lust or passion), hatred (anger, ill-will, aversion, or even boredom), and delusion (ignorance, confusion... and the wasting of time.)
That is all well and good, but how do you think one gets there? BTW Right-view is
not a waste of time.
The habit to prop up the false from the real is the entire point of
anatta; one cannot arbitrarily remove it from the processes of contemplative work and gain the result of freedom. This is the reason I have responded as I have on this point.
Post by beeblebrox: When a person is free of those (i.e., he is unbound), he is then free to do all of the good things which needs to be done. Really. (Another reason why it's not nihilism to let these things go.) He's no longer wrapped up with anything of these that are fruitless.
Sure,
when the task is done, one does not hold to the illusion mistakenly grasped onto with habits of 'I-making, mine-making...' etc.
Post by beeblebrox: As for this so-called "Buddha Nature" (to keep it on-topic)... I only view that as something that is free of greed, hatred and delusion. I don't care what some Mahayanists (or even an army of them) or some Theravadins have to say about it.
And as to the topic, you can
view it any way you like. But this is the reason
buddha-nature as a concept has been accused of the danger of making this same mistaken error; that it implies (only for Theravāda, if you rather), of an intrinsic, unchanging quality of awakening (or nibbāna,buddha, arahant – what
ever) potential. Self-view (or sakkāya, ‘I am’ or whatever you prefer since
atta bothers you so much) is the core habit which makes the pathway to
dukkha, as we know its behavior embarking on this path as taṇhā, maññati, anuparivatti or whatever - with conditions.
by beeblebrox: If they (Theravāda et al) view a "self" in it... then that's their fetter. My practice have nothing to do with that.
Fetter? For Theravāda
to have nothing to do with it at all is my position.