06-29-2010, 12:01 AM
Direct experience of emptiness is the reason to do it. To experience it, that's whats worthwhile.
In Buddhism its called, wisdom realizing emptiness. Phenomena is empty but to have it just as a concept is indeed boring. So getting beyond conceptualism...the key. Once that threshold is crossed, you never go back to it (there can be a weak connection to it but it's easily broken) which is why one never truly goes back to it.
Before that, the challenge is wanting to be free of cyclic existence at all, often cyclic existence is seen as a positive.
In Buddhism its called, wisdom realizing emptiness. Phenomena is empty but to have it just as a concept is indeed boring. So getting beyond conceptualism...the key. Once that threshold is crossed, you never go back to it (there can be a weak connection to it but it's easily broken) which is why one never truly goes back to it.
Before that, the challenge is wanting to be free of cyclic existence at all, often cyclic existence is seen as a positive.