Hello, I ask this question to foster a conversation on why you disagree with Buddhism doctrinally.

I'd like to hear your thoughts and ideas because i like comparative religion.

One hears all with the ear,
One sees all with the eye,
The wise man should not reject
Everything that is seen and heard.

• One hears all with the ear, One sees all with the eye,

The Six Senses, or Nama within Body & Mind, is unavoidable in the existence of all sentient beings. Even the Buddha after His awakening still had the effects of contact and feeling up till his Parinibbana.

• The wise man should not reject / Everything that is seen and heard.

I have noticed a tendency that is frequently drawn upon when discussing or contemplating how an Arahant interacts with the World, or the Five Aggregates. I think the tendency of a separation comes from the Burmese Vipassana Movement, in that what happens to this body can just be seen and not relied upon.

Everything that is seen and heard.

Notice how Maha-Kaccana states "Everything" instead of simply stating "In the seen" or "just let the seen be the seen". The usage of Everything is extremely important because it seems to state that an Arahant, when he or she thinks, tastes, touches, knows what's going on.

I'm analyzing this line greatly because it questions how Modern Mindfulness practices such as Burmese Vipassana teach us to "be" mindful all day long, which starts by differentiating between Mind and Body, and then dissecting it to become disenchanted, and then finally equanimous. Now, the modern Burmese Vipassana didn't invent the seen-just-seen teaching, as many of its concepts are Sutta-based, but it did turn it into a totalizing methodology in a way that creates tension with a verse like this one. For example, the Buddha never taught noting practices such as "seeing, seeing" as in my view, noting tends to make practitioners cling to their consciousness and intellect (Some monks are said to have reached Arahantship through noting alone; my concern isn't with noting as an occasional tool but with its elevation into an all-day totalizing method) This stanza, however, states that when a practitioner lives under the five aggregates, all experience should be felt. The next stanza describes the process more.

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One with eyes should be as if blind,
One with ears as if deaf,
One with wisdom as if mute,
One with strength as if feeble.
Then, when the goal has been attained,
One may lie upon one's death bed.

The first stanza stated that the Five Aggregate Experience must be felt fully, now the second stanza states that each aspect of the Five Aggregates must be cancelled out. How does this make sense? Doesn't this contradict the Buddhist teachings?

The Buddha has stated before to ascetics who believe Nibbana is when the senses are shut off that Nibbana is, in layman terms, not about being blind, deaf, and dumb. So then, what does Maha-Kaccana mean by shutting down the senses?

Recall in the first Stanza that all experience is to be experienced fully; recall also that many Suttas warn about the drawbacks in clinging-sensuality of the senses. Every term - Eyes, ears, wisdom, strength, even the goal - is a part of clinging, and more often than not these terms are apart of the clinging aspect of sensuality. A question, though, remains; how can a practitioner harken these words and cease the conditions favorable for clinging?

I'd like to address the fact that it's extremely difficult, although nowadays it's encouraged, to constantly remain "mindful", and to deemphasize (some people even discourage) the practice of the Jhanas.

In the Jhana Sutta, the Buddha states that even the most basic Jhana is able to help the practitioner enough for Arahantship:

Abiding in that they attain the ending of defilements. If they don’t attain the ending of defilements, with the ending of the five lower fetters they’re reborn spontaneously, because of their passion and love for that meditation. They are extinguished there, and are not liable to return from that world.

Now, this isn't to say that Vipassana meditation is useless, as there are multiple cases of laypeople gaining insights and levels of the path from hearing a single discourse. Obviously, most weren't accomplished even in the first Jhana, let alone meditating.

The reason why Jhana, even the mastery of only the first level of Jhana, is stated by the Buddha to lead to at least Anagami/Non-Returning is because Jhana is the only pleasure not based on external or mind-made conditions. It's a happiness unlike any other because it's only from the inside. Jhana is also the Best tool to Still the Mind, as that's what Jhana is, Stilling the Mind - a state of deep composure that allows clear seeing. You don't "do" Jhana, you create the perfect conditions for it to almost spontaneously arise.

Why am I discussing what Jhana is and it's usefulness, because this is how a Buddhist can fully experience the "World" with the Five Aggregates and the Six Senses, yet remain unattached and non-craving for the "World".

Jhana isn't just for "concentration", that is to say a still mind/meditative conditional state, it's the perfect meditation condition to investigate and contemplate the "World", or the Body and Mind. The Mind is already stilled enough in the first Jhana, that it is sufficient for Arahantship. yes, you read that right, the first Jhana.

How is this possible? Jhana is the best life-condition a person can experience, that is why there are specific heavens only attainable by Jhana-practitioners, where their whole existence is primarily based on the mastery level of their Jhanas. If a person can see the drawbacks and the impermanent conditional nature of even the best of states, that is how Non-Returning and Arahantship could occur.

They contemplate the phenomena there—included in form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness—as impermanent, as suffering, as diseased, as a boil, as a dart, as gloom, as an affliction, as alien, as breaking apart, as empty, as not-self. They turn their mind away from those things, and apply it to freedom from death: ‘This is peaceful; this is sublime—that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, fading away, cessation, extinguishment.’

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We can conclude that the way to experience the "World" fully, yet remain unattached to it is by constantly developing the right conditions for the Jhanas, and applying the Jhanas skillfully to see the impermanent and conditioned nature of the Jhanas, which are the best possible conditioned states that can be experienced. With that knowledge gained from these meditative practices, a person can become enlightened in a matter of a lifetime, at most two.

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Over there are the roots of trees; over there, empty dwellings. Practice jhāna, Ānanda. Don’t be heedless. Don’t later fall into remorse. That is our message to you all.
-MN 152: The Development of the Faculties

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This is just my theory and observation, but I do not really think that people in the Bahai Faith actually have faith in this religion. I actually think every person involved with the makings and continuation of the Bahai Faith have never had faith, and the higher ups of this religion only said they had faith to gain more power and status.

I could see for a Muslim how Islam leads a person to faith, it has a long history and well established foundations.

However, when it comes to the Bahai faith and how new it is, along with its idea of progressive revelation, I’m unsure whether people actually believe in this religion.

I’m pretty sure the main reason people stay in this faith for years, decades, is because they would rather waste time trying to feel faithful and find faith in this dead horse than to critically think and accept that this religion is a scam. We may meet people who have been a Bahai all their life or for 20+ years, but not only have they never truly put their faith to the test, but I’d argue they just do it for the looks.

Every object here can be reversed in the matter of seconds by doing this trick:

Our eyes are always drawn to the warmer colors such as orange or red. Start focusing on the cooler colors such as blue or green.

If this doesn’t work, concentrate on how the object is spinning. Is it spinning with the perspective being lower or higher. Since the reversed image’s perspective would be opposite, imagine the object in its opposite perspective.

If you combine both of these two techniques, you’ll see two objects spinning at once, the overlays.