I wonder, is the Dhamma-eye not enough? Just seeing that nothing constructed is really worth chasing after. Because what is liable to arise is also liable to cease. Why would one want that? If one seeks Peace, the really wholesome, like the Buddha, one understands that the constructed can never be a base for that. It is a mission impossible to seek safety, peace, protection, reliability in what is sankhata.
One must seek the unconstructed or arrive there. How? Via stopping the desire to be in states that are liable to arise and cease. One must abandon such desires as being happy, healthy, youthful, rich, comfortable, someone with this or that Persona, all such in useless. OR, at least see the relativity of all such.
Because it just cannot be maintained. The conditioned cannot be frozen in some fixed state.
I feel, that is what the Dhamma eye sees. We are always busy with fabricating, making, constructing, getting and having this or that, but it never really becomes ours.
A great part of the Mental Healthcare is full of people seeking happiness. Even psychiatrist say that people cannot suffer anymore, they cannot deal with discomfort and desire constant comfort. They desire to be in a constant happy state with nice feelings.
I think it is just the heat of this modern world that makes us mad. A Belgium psychiatrist shares that he feels that the mental healthcare institutions are more and more filled with people who do not really have mental issues, disorders, but unrealistic expactations. This world makes us mad.
Anyway, i believe the Dhamma eye sees that the same desire to be in this or that state, that is the heart of the problem why suffering never ends.
Now people start to point to that sutta that says we must desire arahanthoodā¦But this is so very different because this is not about constructing a state but abandoning all that constructs states! It is is very different from the mundane stream of creating, making, constructing this or that state!
I also feel that Dhamma practice only begins when one really starts to feel what it really means to be not in control. Not in some intellectual way but really felt. Really felt that one cannot change ones illness etc. Otherwise it only leads to more intoxication. Being totally drunk with ideas like having succes, control, being powerful. First one must really feel this is all intoxication.
Without really touching that reality of anatta, no control, one will also not really see that passion is not the Path.
Oh yeh, i am always so opiniated!