Soe Win Htut,Soe Win Htut wrote: Dear Chownah,
Your question is very good.
Some may think it means to abandon all good or bad.
What I mean the word "abandon" or " let go " is not to attach and cling all things including the truth but they are just to be used only, experieced only and known only.
My real meaning of the word "Letting go or abandoning" is not to attach and grasp anything such as something, someone, the truth, this way or that way but
to accept anything such as something, someone, the truth, this way or that way are just to used only, experienced only and known only.
The truth of "one Citta at a time" or whatever truth or way, are not to be attached or grasped but for utilization only, expericing only and knowing only for real enlightenment.
This is my more explanation with ebooks;
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with metta,
I think I do understand what you are saying here.....I think you are saying that we should abandon all things and by this you mean that we should not attach to anything at all including all ideas and anything that arises in our consciousness at all....and that we should not take any of these things to be part of some reality or anything other than something that arises and then passes away....and that to see them in any way other than as arising and passing away of experience is to attach or cling to them and that clinging is the source of all suffering (duhhka). I am in compete agreement with this.
I hope that you can see that I am not needing to be convinced about the abandoning of all phenomena as being empty of self and not worth clinging to......I am just wondering about the title of this thread and why it was chosen. I can see that when understood a certain way it is compatible with what you are saying but I can also see how it can be misunderstood by beginners and perhaps might lead them astray. Also, since everything that arises should be abandoned I don't know why you have emphasized abandoning the idea of abandoning things by placing it in the title. I still do not know if you are trying to say that everything that arises should be abandoned but there is one special thing that should be abandoned and that special thing is the idea of abandoning things....it seems to me that certainly the idea of abandoning things is something to be abandoned but I don't know why you are giving it special treatment by placing it in the title of this thread. I have ideas about why it might deserve special attention but I'm wanting to know why you might think that it is especially important to abandon.
chownah