commons mistakes examples?

[u/jabinslc]

I was inspired to ask this question based on a post from yesterday about sexuality. there seemed to be a debate about whether desire falls off completely vs seeing through the empty nature of desire.

what are other common thinking errors people make on the path? like reifying awareness, the addiction to enlightenment, alienation from regular life perceived as good, the inability to reduce suffering anywhere but on the cushion, the pitfall of viewing things as non-existent vs lacking self nature, etc.

in my own practice, whenever I perceive something as having true ultimate nature, I calmly look at it as empty of self. whether its anger or bliss. good or bad. gently return to the emptiness of even nirvana itself.

[u/Common_Ad_3134]

I'm probably making lots of mistakes.

But a mistake (in my view) that I see here from time to time looks something like this:

• there is only one, true set of practices (which I, an unenlightened person, happen to know)
• there is one, true set of progress markers for those practices (which I, an unenlightened person, happen to be able to judge)
• not meeting (my interpretation/threshold of) the progress markers means you are not progressing

For what it's worth, I think the above can be fine if all parties agree on set of teachings. But in this forum, where people are pulling from various teachers, it seems to lead to comparison and doubt.