Vipallasa: Inversion of Perception

[Sujith]

@Viveka

@Lokantara

This thread seems to be for virtue signaling purposes…

Thanks for your input, but could you elaborate a little, I don’t really understand what you mean

I think that the way in which a point is put forward needs to be along a median. From MN139 :

And how is there neither flattering nor rebuking, and just teaching Dhamma? You don’t say: ‘Pleasure linked to sensuality is low, crude, ordinary, ignoble, and pointless. All those who indulge in such happiness are beset by pain, harm, stress, and fever, and they are practicing the wrong way.’ Rather, by saying this you just teach Dhamma: ‘The indulgence is a principle beset by pain, harm, stress, and fever, and it is the wrong way.’

You don’t say: ‘Pleasure linked to sensuality is low, crude, ordinary, ignoble, and pointless. All those who have broken off such indulgence are free of pain, harm, stress, and fever, and they are practicing the right way.’ Rather, by saying this you just teach Dhamma: ‘Breaking off the indulgence is a principle free of pain, harm, stress, and fever, and it is the right way.’

If there is no ill-will in one’s mind when saying things or making observations that are delivered in a manner not in line with the above advice, then some development of right speech would be beneficial. But trying to navigate the alleys of human communication can get tiresome too.

Or maybe Lokantara was making some other point…