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/Fortinbrah]

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.

You can do that all the time btw

[u/jabinslc → u/Fortinbrah]

yup. but if nirvana is seen as empty. and emptiness itself is empty. what is it that I can do all the time then? it's like a loop that cancels itself out. if the whole impetus of studying emptiness was enlightenment, when the goal is seen as empty of inherent nature. the search is replaced fun and enjoyment. so I worry less about doing "that" all the time. the search for enlightenment is suffering.

and I was trying to ruffle the feathers of those who reify certain things, like nirvana.