r/streamentry • u/jabinslc • 2d ago

Practice commons mistakes examples?

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.

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u/jabinslc 2d ago

what is HH?

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u/adivader Arahant 2d ago

Hillside Hermitage

Its a laugh riot.

Check them out here:

r/hillsidehermitage

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u/Fortinbrah Dzogchen | Counting/Satipatthana 1d ago

Do you guys have beef between the systems? I thought they also encourage lots of practice

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u/adivader Arahant 1d ago

Its a personal opinion of mine.

I thought they also encourage lots of practice

No dude. They consider meditation to be a self hypnosis technique :)

I mean their whole doctrine is so weird, its difficult to believe that they are actually serious about it. I mean prima facie it feels like an elaborate joke

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u/Adaviri Bodhisattva 23h ago

I... could not have guessed there was so much suffering there on the subreddit. Great compassion for them, honestly, and it seems like many are just getting more and more entangled. Bummer!

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u/adivader Arahant 19h ago

I believe that all human beings are fundamentally smart and sufficiently intelligent. So they may get deluded, but they also pop out of their delusion.

Everyone who is entangled, will at some point realize it, and will extract themselves from the trap of silly dogmatism. But ... yeah ... bummer!!

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u/Adaviri Bodhisattva 13h ago

Totally. But the mind and heart did respond with some precognition that some bridge-building - like extending a hand - might be a wholesome card in the deck in the future. For me, that is, if an opportunity arises.

After all, though the work is personal, we others are a function for that work on the way.

They might take you on at some point too, haha! Proactively. You have that power hehehe...

Both things that ought to do more good than harm. :)