An advantage for what?
"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.
<--------->
>---------<
...
"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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