The ‘world’ in the Kaccānagotta Sutta

[Sunyo]

@Dhabba

So since DO is such a deep teaching that one can’t grasp in a logical/intellectual sense, we truly don’t know what cessation actually implies in relation to the world and the khandhas.

H Dhabba,

I don’t understand your overall point, I’m afraid. I would’ve rephrased it and ask if I got it right, but to be frank I don’t even have a hunch… I think you’re insinuating a bit too much and it would be helpful if you were more direct about it. If you’d like to clarify, please bring it back up again in the topic on that perception instead of here. (A paradoxical perception in the Pāli discourses?)

As to this quote, I think I do understand. And I disagree with the first part (intellect) but would disagree with the second. The aim of Buddhism is clearly to have actual knowledge of cessation. The Kaccanagotta sutta says that as well, to have “knowledge independent of others” (and independent of the intellect too).