Dear Frank,
I understand what you mean, stressing a sense of urgency. A sense of urgency
may be rather defective, but it can grow naturally by the development of
pa~n~naa. People follow their inclinations, eschewing all the chitchat of
company. I understand your accumulations very well. I prefer hearing the
voices of the forest to hearing traffic noise.
However, because of conditions we are in different cricumstances. We can
verify that seeing here is no different from seeing over there. Seeing shows
its characteristic, it experiences through the eyesense just what is
visible, nothing else. Visible object is the only ruupa that can be seen.
Seeing, hearing, they arise all the time, and mostly lobha arises in their
train, but we do not notice this. It is our nature to cling to seeing and
visible object, but whatever appears can be understood as a conditioned
dhamma.
In each sutta, be it the Migajalasutta, the Mahaaraahulovaadasutta, the
Discourse on the Elephant's Footprint, the Buddha speaks personally to us.
He reminds us of our defilements at this moment. Remember, every sutta
pertains to this moment. He exhorts us to develop understanding of "the
all". Seeing is an experience, it is different from visible object and
hardness which do not know anything.
Everything can be the object of understanding, because whatever appears, it
is only an element experienced through one of the six doors.
Nina
op 14-02-2003 03:47 schreef Frank Kuan op fcckuan@...:
(snipped)
If we examine the whole body of pali

> suttas, it's very clear to me that the training
> process involves "abandoning company" for the vast
> majority of the time.