[MD] som unplugged - corrected lines

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  "Discussing illusions plays such a big role in the Perfection of Wisdom 
literature because the Buddhist texts state that there is a close connection 
between the existence of illusion and the existence of suffering.  According to 
the Buddhist worldview, the existence of suffering is neither a necessary 
feature of the world nor the consequence of a specific fact about the past (such 
as the fall of Adam), but is rather due to an intellectual error that is 
mistaken about the way things exist.  Suffering is produced by a wrong view of 
the world, a view that is in fact so much part and parcel of our habitual way of 
thinking that we are not aware of its perspectival nature any more.  More 
worryingly, the mere intellectual insight into its falsity does not mean that 
the illusion goes away, in the same way that mere intellectual insight that the 
two line in the diagram below are the same length does not alter the fact that 
the lower line appears to be longer.

  <---------> 
  >---------<  

"That's why the absence of suffering last night seemed so ominous and her
 change to what looked like suffering today gave Phaedrus a feeling she 
was getting better. If you eliminate suffering from this world you 
eliminate life. There's no evolution. Those species that don't suffer 
don't survive. Suffering is the negative face of the Quality that drives 
the whole process. All these battles between patterns of evolution go on 
within suffering individuals like Lila.
And Lila's battle is everybody's battle, you know?"-Lila


"Another immoral way of killing the static patterns is to pass
 the patterns to someone else, in what Phaedrus called a 
'karma dump.' You invent a devil group, Jews or blacks or 
whites or capitalists or communists - it doesn't matter - 
then say that group is responsible for all your suffering, 
and then hate it and try to destroy it. On a daily personal 
level everyone has things or people they hate and blame for 
their suffering and this hatred and blame brings a kind of relief."-Lila



...  

  "The aim of the Buddhist enterprise is therefore not just to show that all 
things are like illusions because the way they appear is different from the way 
they are.  Its aim is to bring about a complete change in how we perceive and 
conceptualize phenomena.  In this way ignorance is cleared away and, one hopes, 
suffering will completely disappear."

    (Westerhoff, Jan, 'Twelve Examples of Illusion)  





> Marsha:
> I suggest the primary goal of RMP for the West, with his presentation of the 
>MoQ, is to overcome a subject-object-metaphysics.  Has this topic become 
>unplugged?
> 




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