Nargajuna’s Middle Way (MMK- mulamadhyamakakarika)
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    Yin Ling

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    The more I read Nargajuna’s Middle Way (MMK- mulamadhyamakakarika), the more I find the usual way of perceiving the world seem so weird and strange.
    Concepts which are taken for granted to be true like :
    Arising and dissolution
    Cause and effect
    Movement
    Characteristics of things
    Actions
    .. Are only fictional. If one investigate just a lil bit, they don’t even make any sense, ludicrous even.
    Nargajuna is truly masterful. For us modern ppl who didn’t go through the middle way school standard training, I find it slightly easier to read MMK after insight of anatta and some direct experience into emptiness, even with that it takes up a lot of brain juice. Not easy but easier with repeated reads.

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    Jayson MPaul
    Yes all those concepts yielded great results when continuously seen through in practice.
    Arising seen through is non-arisen insight
    Cause and effect can lead to conditionaly/DO
    Movement deconstructs identity over space
    Characteristics was instrumental in second-fold emptiness
    Actions can lead to total exertion glimpses (at least so far)




    • Mr./Ms. SK
    What is second fold emptiness and total exertion?


    • Yin Ling
    Mr./Ms. SK second fold emptiness is emptiness of all phenomenas (first fold is emptiness of the personal self)
    And total exertion basically is
    What is Total Exertion?
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    What is Total Exertion?
    What is Total Exertion?


    • Mr./Ms. SK
    That's wonderful
    Total exertion very interesting.
    I tried to observe the conditions of the current experience, then I came back to thinking. And it felt like "me" doing is stressful and the whole experience supported by the conditions felt relaxing.
    Though now I am not very sure


    • Mr./Ms. SK
    But what Jayson meant when he said "Actions can lead to total exertion"…
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    • Yin Ling
    Mr./Ms. SK will let Jayson MPaul explain his insight 🙂


    • Jayson MPaul
    Mr./Ms. SK i meant the deconstruction of action after anatta can lead to total exertion glimpses. MMK is great for working through all your cognitive obscurations and blindspots







    • Sredharan Ramakrishna
    When reading a book, how long the ideas stay in yr awareness?


    Yin Ling
    Sredharan Ramakrishna I don’t get what you mean? Sorry

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    • Sredharan Ramakrishna
    Yin Ling i used to read books thinking they provide answers, now my view is just books provide mind entertainment.


    • Yin Ling
    Sredharan Ramakrishna depends on what you read. And how you read 🙂







    • Mr./Ms. SK
    Isn't arising and dissolution, movement, cause and effect are experiential?
    Isn't fictional only applies to conceptual understanding of above truths?


    Yin Ling
    Mr./Ms. SK hehe need to read MMK to understand 🙂


    • Mark Lackey
    Hi Yin! Would you mind sharing which particular translation you are reading?


    Yin Ling
    Mark Lackey I use mark siderits 🙂


    • Mark Lackey
    Thank you 🙏

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