- There are two ways of not feeling bad: feel good, or don’t feel.
- Project Unbound aims to stop feeling forever, thus putting an end to all stress.
- This is definitionally nirvana.
- To stop feeling would typically be perceived as negative, but of course this is a misperception, as indeed it is actually the highest form of happiness. Will have to work on a better way of expressing it.
- Suppose the Buddha was right. In that case, Unbound serves only to strengthen the argument.
- Suppose he was not. In that case, Unbound continues the search for the truly deathless state.
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Transcendence
- The end of discomfort through the eradication of its roots
- This is a greater ideal, but more uncertain
- Arahants
The Buddhist View Cannot be Ignored
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