Shashank Dixit:
lol , in that case you may be already be a stream winner..

I hope not. That would be the biggest anti-climax *ever*.
...Why is there still suffering when there is no-self in all the aggregates ?
But exactly. And that's kinda the point of the other epiphany I mentioned. In asking myself,
"why are suffering and wellbeing asymmetric in experience" (i.e. why do I prefer the former to the latter), I'm really just asking
"why *is* there suffering (and wellbeing)". Or, more precisely, I'm asking
"*Is* there suffering? It doesn't look like there really is."BUT, there's still a big gap between where I am and where you are (if you're there). Or at least, I hope there is. I postulate three kinds of people:
The first are like someone who has found a manuscript full of horizontal lines and small tadpole-like marks and thought either
"Darn. Someone has scribbled over this nice paper", or at best,
"Cool look at the pretty pictures."The second -- people like me, who have explored a particular line of reasoning -- are those who have spotted the fact that,
"Holy crap -- this is the score for Beethoven's Fifth!"But the third -- those like you (?) who have awakened or at least are some ways along the path -- are those who not only know what the manuscript is, they have *heard* the symphony.
I know -- in my "knower" -- about self, and no-self; about suffering and its non-existence. But I haven't experienced it yet.
I haven't heard the symphony yet.

R
P.S. Actually, the musical analogy is nice in that for sufficiently developed musical sensitivities, someone who has heard the symphony can then "hear" it simply by reading the score. They don't actually have to be exposed to the real sounds anymore. And for the most highly developed, they can *always* hear it, because they have memorized the score. The "music" is simply always with them whenever they want it.
Da-da-da-daaaa.
P.P.S. I'm not sure what that's all analogous *to*, but I hope there's something