There is no 'better'.
Speaking of enlightenment is the height of vulgarity.
I would rather reveal my own foolishness and be corrected, than hide it and keep it.
Speaking eloquently, I would have nothing to say.
By speaking at all, I reveal nothing but my own unenlightenment.
Leaving shit out in the sun, flies are attracted.
I'm glad you asked this question. I read my post to a friend who sees as I do, and she suggested that people would react very negatively to that part and it might explain the volume of downvotes. She has much greater insight into how normal humans think, and so I'm inclined to defer to her judgement on this.
It's quite an offensive idea isn't it.
I recommend you check out The Curse Of The Counterfactual.
Fear and guilt about suffering (whether perceived in ourself or someone else), do not undo suffering. Nor do they motivate us in a healthy way to act.
Humour liberates.
That sounds to me like an expression of your own beliefs. You believe that bias and a lack of money/time/attention holds you back from crafting a life where you could put your time and attention in places that you fundamentally enjoy.
It's really the other way around. When you start to put your time and attention in places you fundamentally enjoy, your situation changes to support you in that (though it rarely seems that way at first). No crafting required.
Matter rearranges itself to suit whatever purpose the mind sets. Ultimately there is no matter, becaus...
I'm not sure what "an excess of time and attention" would even mean.
Let's say every moment is a unit of time and attention. I get to choose what I spend it on, but I can't choose not to spend it. It will be spent, one way or another. Nor can I spend more than the time and attention of this moment. I can't get into time/attention debt, nor can I accumulate a stockpile of it, to spend later.
I suppose, running out of things on which to spend it - that would constitute "an excess of time and attention". That sounds, abso...
By rich, I assume you mean "having more money than I need". Thankfully no.
Time and attention, not money, are my most precious resources (I would not sell a minute of my time for all the money in the world). An excess in money would be a responsibility I would need to spend time and attention on, to determine its most helpful disposal. The more the excess, the greater the responsibility. Who wants that? Not me.
[Epistemic status (am I using this term right?): I am not a scholar, nor well versed in any school of Buddhism. My understanding comes from a combination of personal experience and insight cross-referenced with wikipidea articles]
I see Buddhism as split into two basic schools of thought:
The Sutrayana is the method of perfecting good qualities, where the Vajrayāna is the method of taking the intended outcome of Buddhahood as the path.
I would class that Indian Buddhist as Sutrayana and the Chinese one as Vajrayāna.
In simpler terms, one is getting...
Eventually, yes. If you keep removing wrongness, eventually there won't be any left, and you'll be right. But that approach takes a long time.
Imagine you've lost your keys. You know they are in your flat somewhere but they could be anywhere. So after eliminating a few likely places, you systematically go through every object in your flat, checking "are these my keys?"
But imagine another scenario, where you don't know that they are in your flat. And in fact, you believe that they aren't. Will you search as systematically? ...
Works for me - thanks to The Work I'm not even vaguely the same person as the one who started with it.
Moreover, in 15 years I have yet to find a single problem that didn't, upon investigation, turn out to be an instance of the counterfactual curse.