Bad thing? I can’t see the implication. It’s hard to imagine that peaceful mind will still be trying to hack magic even for saving all sentient beings, thus it’s a failure of sorts. Does that failure imply badness? I don’t think so.
Do you want to say that “fail spectacularly” has connotations I’m not aware of? I intended it to mean “fail in unpredictable and confusing way”. I’m still puzzled by your reaction.
You say that like becoming a bodhisattva is a bad thing.
‘I vow to save all sentient beings...’
A bodhisattva is someone who deliberately refrains from departing into nirvana, but stays behind in order to save all sentient beings.
A nitpick essential to my joke—having enough luck to enter nirvana is not the same thing as actually entering nirvana.
Bad thing? I can’t see the implication. It’s hard to imagine that peaceful mind will still be trying to hack magic even for saving all sentient beings, thus it’s a failure of sorts. Does that failure imply badness? I don’t think so.
Indeed?
Do you want to say that “fail spectacularly” has connotations I’m not aware of? I intended it to mean “fail in unpredictable and confusing way”. I’m still puzzled by your reaction.
Thanks, I’ve corrected typo.