So the Buddha is talking to his disciple Subhuti in The Diamond Sutra and he says something like, 'A boddhisvatta takes a vow to liberate all beings, but anyone who even has a concept of such a thing as a being is not a boddhisvatta.'
This assertion that the very existence of beings is an illusion or delusion comes as something of a relief to those of us who always had issues with beings - although I did okay with dogs, cats and such. It's good to know this world is actually a virtual world –– just like 'Second Life,' only with better graphics.
The illness I had recently would have eventually killed me had it gone untreated. But Mahayana texts tell us even the concepts of birth and death are mistakes/misunderstandings/misapprehensions/miswhatever. If I had 'died', so what? I was never really here, and I'm not really here right now. (And neither are you, but keep reading, anyway.)
For those of us practicing the seven habits of highly don't-give-a-shit people, this is a very advantageous point of view.
What if the earth decided to shrug off all our crap? Just shake it off like a dog shakes off water?
All the running shoe factories, all the NFL stadia, all the cable shopping channels, all the defense contractors, all the fast food chains. All the big important enterprises, all the revenue streams, all the strategic business plans.
Just leave the broadband Internet, okay?
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