> > A Stream Enterer would be roughly equivalent > > to Brahman Consciousness... > > emptybill wrote: > ...so he invents and assigns what he thinks > will sound"o-so-esoteric". > Too avid seeking for enlightenment embodies a very subtle greed which must be rooted out by more subtle efforts. But you must not pursue the uprooting greedily, but by means of a still more subtle way.
Vaj needs to realize that he is not going to get any more enlightenment than he is poing to get. And while metaphysical pursuits may be interesting to a certain degree, not one single concept is going to help him cross over to the other side. "The problem of stopping the striving is sufficiently difficult, complex, and attention-demanding that anyone who pursues it seriously will have little time left over for indulging unhappily in metaphysical pursuits" (20-23). Work cited: 'Philosophy of the Buddha' by Archie J. Bahm Harper, 1959
