[vipassana] Discussion Thread for the book "Seeing That Frees" and or dependent origination and emptiness.

These are good questions. I think (and hope) he has just found a skilful way of teaching techniques that are beneficial to and congruent with the lives of the Western householders that come to him, that also have the potential to point in the direction of awakening for those who want to take it further.

But maybe it's just coincidental, though. The perspectival view is a view, a view that one could become attached to and find extraordinarily difficult to shed because it is subtle and amorphous (it's a view on which you can pin your attachment to dozens of contradictory views on, while completely denying you're doing so, in fact). I'm uncomfortable with the phrase "you can directly experience [an object] as a collection of atoms" because all you can experience is your belief conditioning your sensory experience. Maybe that's what he's pointing towards - that you can get rid of every belief? He is extremely learned, and knowledge can be a barrier to realisation. He is extremely compassionate, and compassion can be a barrier to realisation.

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