Yana shock | Vividness

Unlike Hinayana Buddhists, who see nirvana as the final goal of practice, Mahayana Buddhists see it as a higher form of delusion still involving the dualities of subject and object, existence and nonexistence.

In Tibet, the view of Hinayana is associated with the first turning wherein the Buddha expounded the four noble truths: the truth of suffering; the truth of the cause of suffering; the truth of the cessation of suffering; and the truth of the path. The specific view of Hinayana is associated with the first two truths, while the fourth truth concern

In Zen Buddhism it is said that ‘If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.’ Which means that if while walking on the spiritual path you encounter the rigid ideas and fixed laws of institutionalised Buddhism, you must free yourself from them too.

Basically, they think a dharma has existence and substance and arises from causes. Such things must be abandoned and avoided.73 Don’t engage in the projection of appearances or become attached to what are perceptions of your own mind. The things people grasp, such as clay pots, lack any real substance. To view dharmas like this is to abandon them.

Mahayanists may be perfectly correct in assuming that the Buddha intended this emphasis as an upaya, a skillful means of enabling one to realize, concretely and vividly, the absurd vicious circle of desiring not to desire, or of trying to get rid of selfishness by oneself. For this is certainly the conclusion to which the practice of the Buddha’s d