Alan Chapman:
There is no issue with malice and sorrow, never has been, never can be. Wholeness does not transcend the issue; it reveals there never was one.
Practicing enlightenment - i.e. not entertaining the bad habits left over from ignorance - is not a method of dealing with the issue of malice and sorrow; it is the recognition that there is not an issue. In the place of mailce and sorrow arises compassion, peace and freedom, and virtuous actions follow.
Again: enlightenment does not 'deal' with issues; it is the recognition that there never was any. All the evil in the world results from believeing that there are 'issues' that need dealing with, because this is a view based on ignorance.
im short on net time, so i'll keep it short. let's try a substitution. you say:
'There is no issue with malice and sorrow, never has been, never can be. Wholeness does not transcend the issue; it reveals there never was one.'
lets say, instead of 'malice and sorrow', we say 'anger, sadness, and fear'. would you then write:
'There is no issue with [anger, sadness, and fear], never has been, never can be. Wholeness does not transcend the issue; it reveals there never was one.'?
and if so, does that mean to imply that you do not experience anger, sadness, or fear in any way at all, ever, whatsoever? or that in the way you experience their existence, there is no issue whatsoever?
if the former, i would be interested to know.
if the latter, we have clearly different agendas. i wish to eradicate anger, sadness, and fear completely, and so do see an issue with them. angry, sad, and fearful humans exist in a world that exists, humans that would be better off not being angry sad or fearful. something fundamental can be done about this. therefore, saying 'no issue' about anger, sadness and fear (since they have no inherent existence, and arise only to pass anyway) is such a failed solution, in that it does not lead to humans who are not angry, not sad, and not fearful.
to recognise wholeness in a way that makes the perpetual arising of anger, sadness and fear irrelevant - a non-issue - is to miss something that is the very key to making these unfortunate conditions stop arising completely, forever. if finding that key is too tall an order for you, or seemingly irrelevant, then as it is your life and your choice, i respect it.. but i do not agree with it. 'recognising wholeness' in such a way that nullifies the need to eliminate anger, sadness and fear is such a travesty of a solution to the problems that plague human beings that its propagation as such would be purely comical were it not also downright dangerous .. peace on earth is at stake, and your solution will not win it.
tarin