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Are these simple sentences right? They are about 4 noble truths, 3 characteristics, craving, etc

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The sentences I want to check with you are: 1. Reducing suffering (or eliminating it) is the main goal. 2. The main reason we keep suffering is desire and aversion. 3. We can experience craving to any of the five aggregates (e.g. thoughts) and also to the situation in general (e.g. become a teacher or become enlightened). 4. We have tools to reduce desire and aversion (or promote this reduction in others). E.g. not-self, impermanence and dukkha. Jhana. 5. This tools (3 characteristics, jhana, etc.) are truthful (they are not white lies). 6. This tools lead to a "desinterest" (equanimity) that gives freedom. For example, by seeing pain as impermanent (as lasting briefly or nothing) then there is "desinterest" in it (equanimity to it), and as such there is a freedom to either experience it or not without suffering it. 7. Ultimately it's best to be equanimous even to becoming enlightened (a case of bhava-tanha?), the tools ("the raft" that is abandoned after crossing the river), no-thoughts (aversion to thoughts?), etc. That's it, feel free to make little corrections or flat out tell me there are big mistakes there. Thanks.
Asked by Exequiel (383 rep)
Sep 27, 2020, 02:28 PM
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