Chasen Banks
Has anyone ever had trouble with attachments to ontological viewpoints. 

I think I have been smuggling in a form of attachment to the "everything is emtpiness view". 

Mediators and other spiritual practitioners can get "stuck" on emptiness and thus believe everything is empty. This is a partial view of our experience, but it can be very enticing, and even mildly addicting. Unfortunately, being stuck there leads to interrupted spiritual experience and/or progress. Our human experience is richer and more varied than just that one view. It contains multiple "truths" and we can, and actually do experience them all.

The victorious ones have said
That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.
For whomever emptiness is a view,
That one will accomplish nothing.
...
By a misperception of emptiness
A person of little intelligence is destroyed.
Like a snake incorrectly seized
Or like a spell incorrectly cast.
...
For him to whom emptiness is clear,
Everything be comes clear.
For him to whom emptiness is not clear,
Nothing becomes clear.

In my school, there are only two kinds of sickness. One is to go looking for a donkey riding on the donkey. The other is to be unwilling to dismount once having mounted the donkey.
You say it is certainly a tremendous sickness to mount a donkey and then go looking for the donkey. I tell you that one need not find a spiritually sharp person to recognize this right away and get rid of the sickness of seeking, so the mad mind stops.
Once you have recognized the donkey, to mount it and be unwilling to dismount is the sickness that is most difficult to treat. I tell you that you need not mount the donkey; you are the donkey! The whole world is the donkey; how can you mount it? If you mount it, you can be sure the sickness will not leave!
If you don’t mount it, the whole universe is wide open! When the two sicknesses are gone, and there is nothing on your mind, then you are called a wayfarer. What else is there? This is why when Zhaozhou asked Nanquan, “What is the path?” Nanquan replied, “The normal mind is the path.” Now Zhaozhou suddenly stopped his hasty search, recognized the sickness of “ Zen Masters” and the sickness of “Buddhas,” and passed through it all. After that, he traveled all over, and had no peer anywhere, because of his recognition of sicknesses.