Gap in My Understanding of the Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (SN 22.59)

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Let alone a fortnight, anyone who develops these four kinds of mindfulness meditation in this way for seven days can expect one of two results: enlightenment in the present life, or if there’s something left over, non-return.
~ MN 10

The Buddha did teach the shortcut: rewiring the mind from the inside out. Everything else is the long way.

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Yes, very powerful similes. Now, whenever I see a patch of snow (and in Canada we tend to get a fair bit) I think: “Look, another lump of foam”. Also considering the vast empty space inside an atom between the nucleus and the electron(s). It’s comparable to the emptiness between a grain of rice in the center of a football stadium (the nucleus) with the electrons starting at the perimeter of the stadium… It’s thanks to the electromagnetic forces only that we do not fall through the earth.

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