Question about perceiving the repulsive and the unrepulsive

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@hdvd2309

I think arahant see thing as it is, not repulsive or un-repulsive

I agree that the arahant sees ‘as it is’, but I am suggesting that ‘as it is’ is inherently ‘repulsive’, but I guess it depends whether you think suffering is repulsive or not?

Arahants have obviously attained nibbana, so from their point of view there’s no repulsion from suffering (they have already been repelled out of creating future suffering for themselves and are now watching from the side-lines awaiting parinibbana), but what about non-arahants? - If one sees samsara ‘as it is’ which the arahants suggest is just suffering arising and ceasing, then will that perception repel you away from samsara and towards nibbana)?

@Brahmali

The arahant, by contrast, has no sense of self. For them all there is is suffering; experience itself is seen as suffering. When experience comes to an end, they attain the highest happiness. And they have nothing to lose, since there never was anything apart from changeable and unsatisfactory phenomena. When it comes to an end … hurray! All you have lost is suffering.