It is just normal. People do not even take the time to think about what i write and share. They immediately are in a mode of critque or rejection. It is discouraging.
Buddha would also feel discouraged, tired, when people are not even willing to take some time to digest what is being said.
I see you have grasped the idea that becoming discouraged, burdensome in dealing with people talking about Dhamma is a sign of failure …nope…even a Buddha has such wishes. If one does not even care to be understood when is spiritual totally death.
“You don’t understand this teaching and training. I understand this teaching and training. What, you understand this teaching and training? You’re practicing wrong. I’m practicing right. I stay on topic, you don’t. You said last what you should have said first. You said first what you should have said last. What you’ve thought so much about has been disproved. Your doctrine is refuted. Go on, save your doctrine! You’re trapped; get yourself out of this—if you can!”
You’d think there was nothing but slaughter going on among the Jain ascetics. … white-clothed lay disciples were disillusioned, dismayed, and disappointed in the Jain ascetics.
Furthermore Ven. Sariputta says that doesn’t happen to teaching of Buddha.
But this teaching is well explained and well propounded to us by the Blessed One, emancipating, leading to peace, proclaimed by someone who is a fully awakened Buddha. You should all recite this in concert, without disputing, so that this spiritual path may last for a long time. That would be for the welfare and happiness of the people, out of sympathy for the world, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans.
Either this teaching(Buddhism) is well explained and liberating or it is not. Either True Dhamma has disappeared or we have grasped the dhamma wrong(snake).
It is the ultimate peace and contentment. Anything else would be less desirable, so there is no temptation to leave it. It is still in flux, like static on an old fashioned TV, but no desire to tune it to parse it into a picture and sound. There is no feeling of being a person and no objects that together would be considered a world.
It seems to me there are two main camps here. On the one side, @Green is positing a “limitless”, “infinite” mind, perhaps not clearly describing what that means. The other camp believes that Green is overshooting the mark by describing a mind that is “permanent” and “eternal”. Whatever the case, “infinite” and “eternal” do not need to be understood as the same thing. There can be infinity… that is impermanent.
