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Right here’s the unique audio recording: A Few Stray Factors about Nonduality with Jake Orthwein.
Michael Taft: Hey and welcome to Deconstructing Your self, the podcast for meta-modern mutants involved in meditation, hardcore Dharma, neuroscience, the International Weirding, Tantra, nonduality, awakening, and a lot extra. My title is Michael Taft, your host on the podcast, and on this episode, I’m being interviewed by Jake Orthwein. I needed to speak about a number of necessary and considerably random factors on the subject of nonduality. And so I felt that Jake, who sort of is aware of rather a lot about it will be the right interlocutor to assist me unpack this fascinating matter. Jake Orthwein is a filmmaker primarily based in Santa Monica, California, and a Dharma scholar of mine. You could have seen his YouTube video entitled “How Politics Turned Professional-Wrestling.” And he’s presently engaged on a sequence of movies surrounding meditation, psychedelics, and predictive processing. And so now with out additional ado, I provide the episode that I name “A Few Stray Factors About Nonduality,” with Jake Orthwein.
Michael Taft: Jake, welcome to the Deconstructing Your self podcast.
Jake Orthwein: Very honored to be right here, Michael, thanks.
MT: It’s nice to have you ever right here. In order you after all know, we’re gonna flip the roles, and I’m gonna have you ever asking me questions. So I’ll simply give up the ground. You’re the MC. Take it away, Jake.
JO: Okay, so with this background matter, we’ve received in thoughts of nonduality, I suppose the primary place to begin is likely to be: when this time period nonduality will get used what two issues are being claimed to be not-two or nondual?
MT: Yeah, nice query to begin out with, as a result of really, it’s most likely crucial query. What nonduality are we speaking about? And it seems that this can be a level of great confusion as a result of the time period has clout and the time period has recognizability. It’s received some pizzazz behind it and so folks need to use it. However it seems that they use it in several methods to imply various things. And, most essentially, are speaking about really completely different nondualities. And so to start with, lets say, clearly, if there’s a duality, you want two issues. And as you mentioned, which two issues are apparently twin, however we’re saying aren’t twin? And I feel that that’s one thing that we’re going to be unpacking all through the course of this interview.
However some actually necessary issues that might be nondual are completely different than all the various issues that might be mentioned to be nondual. So if we took any checklist of mundane dualities, or mundane units of opposites; massive and small, or loud and quiet, or massive and little, or white and black, all of these, lets say, Okay, these aren’t twin. However what would we get out of that? It’s like, Okay, now we’re actually all dedicated, we’re gonna have a brand new faith in regards to the nonduality of salt and pepper. Nicely, who cares? I imply, possibly some cooks someplace will likely be inconvenienced by the mob of our followers or no matter, however it gained’t actually change something. So what dualities are actually necessary to see the nondualness of, precise collapse the duality of and some of them could be for instance–and these are traditionally necessary–lets say the duality between purity and impurity, between God and man, between thoughts and matter, stuff like that. That’s the place it begins to get juicy, like necessary nondualities, and necessary methods to see that our fixation upon retaining issues–let’s say the duality between sacred and profane. We’re attempting to construct slightly wall round our sacred stuff and preserve all of the profane at bay, it turns into actually necessary to see that in a method of it, there isn’t any separation between sacred and profane.
So good query, and we’ll unpack this as we go alongside. However I’d declare that basically, over 1000’s of years, particularly of spiritual or religious historical past, the 2 nondualities that we’re going to most be involved in and that can get us probably the most bang for our buck, when it comes to, be life-changing in a really optimistic method, there’s actually solely two which are central. After which there’s slightly handful of others which are attention-grabbing. So the 2 are going to be: the nonduality between self and different; and the nonduality between, we’ll simply say, vacancy and kind. Though I might simply as simply name that one between God and the world or consciousness and the world. So these are the 2.
And what will get me off the bed within the morning is that really these two are intently associated. They usually’re intently associated in a hierarchy, they’re completely different. And as I mentioned, the difficulty is that persons are utilizing the phrase nondual to imply various things and suppose that they’re utilizing it in a method that’s comparable, they usually’re actually not. And these are the 2 that get confused on a regular basis. And the confusion is admittedly notably pernicious, as a result of the nonduality of self versus different, which I’ll, in a really Michael Taft style, simply name Nonduality 1, is required to have Nonduality 2 however doesn’t equal Nonduality 2, which is the nonduality of vacancy and kind. In order that they exist in a hierarchy and the implications of the primary one are contained in the second, however after all, Nonduality 2, the implications of it go a lot, a lot additional. And actually, they find yourself sort of wanting like the alternative of one another. So it’s actually attention-grabbing in there.
JO: You talked about all these different, extra mundane dualities from the very trivial like salt and pepper to the seemingly extra necessary, like pure and impure for instance, or of extra non secular significance, you would say, and I suppose possibly simply to narrate these ideas in folks’s minds, is it the case that to say one thing is nondual, to say two issues are nondual, is to say that every factor on both facet of that imagined duality is empty?
MT: Yeah, however you already mentioned it if you mentioned imagined. So the issues on both facet of the imagined duality, and that’s it proper there. It’s that the duality is simply one thing–it’s like a class that you just’re making in your head or two classes that you just’re making in your head which are completely different. So it arises within the creativeness, it arises within the thoughts, however it’s completely mentally created. And it’s a massive a part of nonduality, to see that if you drop that mentally generated two completely different classes or two completely different packing containers factor, if you drop that, all of a sudden they aren’t in two completely different classes, all of a sudden, the separation between them drops away. I’d say that that’s associated in necessary methods to vacancy, however not the identical factor as vacancy.
JO: Maybe we are able to simply begin with this expertise of what does it imply to say that topic and object are nondual? So what could be the investigation that one would undertake in meditation to find that? After which, what’s the phenomenal results of that?
MT: Certain, I imply, we might undertake dozens, a whole lot, 1000’s of various methods to note this. However it’s really not that arduous to note as a result of once more, what we’re doing there’s dropping a set of psychological packing containers that we usually use to orient our notion. I’m over right here, different issues are over there, and there’s a distance between them, they usually exist in a relationship that’s the relationship of topic and object, proper? So I’m doing issues to an object or I’m perceiving an object and so forth. So all of these are the set of psychological packing containers that we’re producing round and inside the expertise, and after we both drop these psychological packing containers, or cease them, or see by means of them, one thing fairly completely different happens. And we start to note and once more by means of many alternative meditation methods, and even simply because we’d discover it sometime, if we calm down in a sure method, or we might discover it by means of drug interactions, we might really even discover it in numerous methods like being ailing or hit on the top. We are able to discover, when these classes, when these packing containers are dropped, after they launch, after we let go, there’s merely expertise occurring.
So I’m now a lemon tree. Outdoors my window is a ravishing lemon tree. And in a standard mind set of an individual off the road I, over right here am wanting on the lemon lovely, shining, yellow lemon on the tree there, it’s really moist within the rain, it’s sort of a nearly archetypal lemon. After which, if I calm down these packing containers, if I relaxed the categorization, if I calm down the system of orientation I’m imposing on this, all that begins to occur is there’s simply an arising of a lemon in imaginative and prescient, or if I am going even deeper, there’s only a yellow circle. And there’s no one seeing it. And it’s not pointing to an object, there’s simply this expertise of sunshine, proper? And in order that’s an instance of what that appears like after we drop topic and object.
JO: Okay, so there’s a relationship between this expertise of subject-object duality. And you would say, like, the reification of the appearances, as a result of as you mentioned, like, stress-free the fixation of lemon as lemon additionally relaxes the fixation of you realize, I’m over right here, and the lemon is over there.
MT: Yeah. And actually, that begins to level at various kinds of practices, as a result of to have a duality, because the phrase implies, we’ve got to have two issues. So if we calm down, the fixation on the lemon as object that perforce relaxes the fixation on me as an object, so we might sort of, in our apply, emphasize the non-objectness of the lemon. And we’d sort of get non-objectness of self out of that as a bonus, or we might work on the opposite finish of the stick, and actually work on non-fixation on self. And also you’d begin to discover instantly that objects of the world round appear much less separate, appear much less fixated as objects, and begin to have a powerful sense of non-separation. Both method.
JO: Okay, so I’m certain most of your listeners may have had one thing like these experiences, and so it’ll be acquainted to them. However if you say, the lemon is now not a lemon, it simply turns into one thing like, within the restrict, simply gentle, however you realize, like a yellow circle, and so forth. In your expertise, that’s not translating into some form of lack of decision or smudginess, it’s like nearly within the different course. Otherwise you inform me. Is it extra vivid? Or is it much less vivid in advantage of like not having the conceptual classes imposed on it?
MT: It’s extra vivid. And we might theorize about why simply an arm-wavy sort of concept is that stress-free the classes, stress-free the fixation frees up some, let’s say mind energy for use for decision. So really, the readability, the vividness, the brightness of the expertise, goes up. And it’d solely go up just a bit bit, however it may go up rather a lot. Both method, as an alternative of shedding decision, fairly a little bit of decision is gained.
JO: Proper. So simply to introduce this distinction between nonduality and monism. The monist declare, as I perceive it, could be one thing like: you wouldn’t have the ability to inform the distinction between a lemon and your shoe when you had been to see the excellence between lemon and shoe as empty, which suggests this form of undifferentiation of expertise. And what you’re describing sounds extra just like the sphere of expertise is now not divided from itself however all the pieces that’s showing in it’s far more vividly seen.
MT: Yeah, it will get difficult as a result of monism and nondualism are completely different, and but they will sound the identical and moreover, you would have one with out the opposite, however you would even have each collectively. So there’s the potential for monist however not nondual, nondual however not monist, neither nondual nor monist, or each collectively. Proper? They usually sound sort of comparable, however they’re completely different. So, monism is a metaphysical factor about what’s the basic substance to the universe. And there’s three essential variations you possibly can have the materialist or physicalist monism; all the pieces is simply manufactured from matter, and nothing else, the basic substance, or you possibly can have idealism; the basic substance is thoughts, it’s consciousness, or you possibly can have impartial monism; the place it’s each. Or to place it in another way, there’s some impartial substance that’s neither psychological nor bodily, however we don’t know what it’s.
So monism is like this view that there’s one basic substance. And nondualism is just not metaphysical, like that. It’s philosophical or religious. And it’s about the concept that issues aren’t divided into separate entities or classes, which, you would see that’s subtly completely different however importantly, completely different, it’s a unique emphasis. It doesn’t actually matter. We’re not speaking about what it’s manufactured from, or what the basic essence of actuality is. It’s in regards to the expertise of actuality.
JO: Proper. Right me if I’m improper, although, however I really feel like you would have a monism or nondualism in regards to the relationship of expertise to actuality at massive, and you’ll have a monism or nondualism inside expertise. You describe the monism as saying there’s really one substance and it’s all consciousness or it’s all matter or no matter and nondualism’s declare is being inside expertise, however don’t for instance, like Advaitans declare a nondualism between consciousness and the world. In different phrases, don’t they make the metaphysical model of nondualism?
MT: As I mentioned, you possibly can have these combined collectively. Yeah.
JO: Yeah, so there’s a monism metaphysical and experiential. And there’s a nondualism metaphysical and experiential. You’re solely defending nondualism within the experiential case.
MT: I’m undecided, I’m now going, hmmmm. However sometimes, folks don’t speak about monism experientially except they’re mistakenly utilizing the phrase and needs to be utilizing the phrase nondualism.
JO: Received it? Yeah, I suppose it will be like a psychedelic expertise the place it’s all one colour, you realize, one thing like that? Yeah.
MT: Yeah. Early translators of Buddhist stuff, they couldn’t determine the phrase nondual so they only use the phrase monism. And in order that elevated the confusion round this. And moreover, why do these Asian religious traditions and philosophical traditions trouble to make use of this actually clunky phrase nondualism, after they too have a superbly good phrase for monism? Nicely, as a result of they don’t imply monism. That’s not what they’re attempting to say. Proper? They’re attempting to speak about one thing fairly completely different.
JO: Which is that this non-separateness of phenomena if you’re not imposing conceptual distinctions upon them?
MT: Sure, sure.
JO: Yeah. So possibly I might simply have you ever form of retread a few of that floor slightly bit. Once more, as a result of there’s this relationship that you just appear to sketch between Nondual 1 as the popularity of nonduality of topic and object as being an increasing number of evident, as you see phenomena as empty. So the course of progress towards realizing nonduality of topic and object is towards an increasing number of phenomena being seen as empty. Is that proper?
MT: That’s a method of describing it. Sure, due to course, we are able to have nondual traditions that don’t speak about vacancy in that method.
JO: Okay, so with that image of Nondual 1 on the desk, what’s Nondual 2, and what’s the course of journey towards it?
MT: So let me simply unpack Nondual 1 in one other method that can make clear this concern of consciousness. And I’ll simply use the most typical metaphor that’s used all over the place. However I’ll replace it simply barely, though it would nonetheless be old-fashioned. So let’s postulate a film being proven on a film display. And on the film display, there’s a particular person and a practice. And conventionally, we might say okay, particularly if I’m the particular person, I’m right here, there’s a practice over there. And I’m it. However from the sunshine of consciousness, from the point of view of consciousness itself, the particular person and the practice are merely showing within the discipline of consciousness equally, proper. They’re each on the display, so to talk. And when it comes to being on the display, they’re not separate in any respect. And so seeing that particular person and practice aren’t separate in any method. They’re completely different. That is one more reason it’s not monism. The practice and the particular person aren’t the identical rattling factor. One appears like an individual and the opposite one appears like a practice. So one of many essential issues about nonduality is it retains the distinction. However we see that they’re showing on the identical display of consciousness, they’re arising as contents in the identical discipline of consciousness. And in order that’s Nonduality 1. Does that make sense to you, Jake?
JO: Yeah, yeah. And I see how that follows from this logic of, suppose you’re doing even atypical, like dualistic Vipassana, and also you’re noticing completely different objects from this posture of seeming like a separate topic. However something you possibly can discover goes to be one other object. And that doesn’t imply that each one these objects are literally the identical object. It simply means they’re all objects. And if it seems like one thing to be a topic, that feeling is displaying up as yet one more object.
MT: That’s proper. That is the necessary factor is the sensation of being me, the physique sensations, and the feelings, and the ideas are simply extra quote, objects which are showing within the discipline of consciousness. And so after we see it that method, all the pieces is just not separate, on this discipline of consciousness. And in order that’s the nonduality of topic and object, very clearly. That is what most individuals are speaking about after they’re speaking about nonduality. And that’s Nonduality 1. And we are able to cartoonishly characterize it by its slogans like, I’m one with the universe, all the pieces is one, issues like that. And there’s a sort of an urge to name it one which once more may level in the direction of monism, however it’s not that it’s not completely different. We might nearly say it’s all only one class.
JO: At this degree, is the understanding nonetheless, that they’re showing in consciousness, which is to say like there’s consciousness as a context, and there’s phenomena as contents?
MT: Sure, and actually that the separation between these issues turns into a non secular thought in this sort of Nondual 1. So then consciousness turns into basically sacred, mystical, the Eye of God, the One True Factor. It’s simply this awakeness and all the pieces that’s arising inside this consciousness all of the contents of consciousness–and it depends upon which custom which philosophy which faith–however all of the contents may be strongly shoved into the anti class. So, like they’re mucking up consciousness or they’re a delusion that’s in some way main us astray from our true nature as this consciousness. Proper? So, regardless that all of the issues of the world are one and united in consciousness, consciousness is strongly completely different than its contents. This might be typified in one thing like Advaita Vedanta, particularly authentic Advaita Vedanta, the place consciousness is actually God, and your consciousness is identical as the notice of God. So we’ve got this god nature as wakefulness, however then all of the appearances in consciousness are like this delusory hallucination that’s drawing us out of our God nature into mucking round within the shit of the world.
JO: Proper, so I can hear echoes of the opposite dualities that you just invoked at the start of the dialog, like between sacred and profane and between pure and impure, and between transcendent and imminent, the notice is the sacred, transcendent and pure factor. And its contents are the mucky, gross, profane issues.
MT: That’s proper. It doesn’t need to be that method. And there’s softer variations of all this, however that sort of transcendental nondualism is quite common. And apparently, for folks raised in a Christian context, or Christian modernist context, apart from the I-Am-One-With-God half, it resonates actually strongly with like puritanism. God is sacred and the world is profane. And so it has actual resonances for Christians or different folks in like form of Judeo-Christian tradition.
JO: Proper. So within the typical sort of Christian dualistic posture, you’re nonetheless feeling like a topic referring to that pure, huge, sacred, untainted, transcendental factor.
MT: So when you’re nonetheless a topic, it’s not nondual, proper? However yeah, you’re a topic referring to the transcendent deity or transcendent consciousness. After which within the heretical, nondual Judeo-Christian view, you acknowledge that you’re one with the deity. So that you get issues for instance, in Islam, Al-Hallaj saying, Ana’l-Ḥaqq, proper, I’m the reality. Now we’re going into full nondualism, the place fact right here is one other method of claiming, Allah, saying God. Within the Judeo-Christian-Muslim sphere, if you make this final transfer of, there’s no separation between something together with me and God, then you then’re often…
JO: Quickly to be murdered.
MT: Yeah, soon-to-be murdered, however it does occur. We do see this developing repeatedly with mystics, as a result of it’s there to be skilled, proper? It’s not that dueling philosophers got here up with this nondual thought after which determined to see if they might have the expertise. It’s a human expertise that folks attempt to clarify in numerous methods.
JO: Okay, so that is Nondual 1. And as you mentioned earlier than, Nondual 1 may be approached and realized in a method that doesn’t reify it as absolute. However in these non secular programs the place it’s reified as absolute, you get this transcendental renunciative, dualistic orientation.
MT: Paradoxically dualistic orientation. Yeah, it doesn’t need to be renunciative however nearly all the time is.
JO: Would now, do you suppose, be a superb time to begin unpacking what Nondual 2 means? And what the course of journey could be for that?
MT: Yeah. And the best way that we’ve defined and gone by means of Nondual 1 makes it apparent, I hope, what Nondual 2 is. It units it up. It begs the query due to course, in Nondual 1, we’ve ended up creating a powerful dualism between expertise, or consciousness, and the contents of expertise. However in Nondual 2, we then collapse that duality as effectively and emphasize the nondual nature the not-two-ness of consciousness and its contents, or expertise and its contents, or if we use Buddhist language, vacancy and kind. And that is really fairly a bit deeper and in addition collapses any want for this renunciative transcendental temper as a result of we’ve simply collapsed the vertical dimension right here that the transcendent transfer was attempting to create.
JO: It happens to me, simply because it’ll be a great way to arrange the apply right here, we should always point out possibly how this pertains to your stack mannequin. So the stack strikes its method right down to consciousness, which, as you had been saying, is one other mind-set about what it means to have this recognition of Nondual 1, however then can transfer its method again up.
MT: Yeah, we might say that happening the stack mannequin is in your option to Nondual 1, if you hit the underside of the stack mannequin, you’re at Nondual 1. And you then return up the stack reintegrating all of phenomena again in. And that’s shifting within the course of Nondual 2.
JO: Is it true to say that, say you’re sitting and also you’re working down the stack till you get to consciousness, or in a Dzogchen context, like Rigpa, at the very least in the intervening time, isn’t that additionally Nondual 2? It’s simply that you just’re very susceptible to dropping out of it if you stand up off the cushion, and all kind reasserts itself or the thought contents reassert themselves?
MT: Provided that you suppose that the underside of the stack is Nondual 2, and it might be, however solely in a really restricted method, proper, since you’re not really coping with any contents at that time. However extra seemingly, it’s going to be simply Nondual 1. You’re going to nonetheless are likely to expertise consciousness as a factor, and all of the contents of consciousness, the world, the sense of self, as empty. However so long as consciousness remains to be sort of a factor, you’re nonetheless in Nondual 1.
JO: Okay.
MT: And so that you’re proper, you would doubtlessly make a Nondual 2 transfer there, however you may not. And for this reason, for instance, in lots of Buddhist contexts, and in addition within the nondual Shaiva Tantra context, you’re invited to note the vacancy of the notice itself, proper? You’re by no means going to reify that. However in a Nondual 1 context, you’re nearly strongly inspired to reify the notice itself.
JO: To see that it’s not tainted by its contents.
MT: Nicely, and to think about it as a factor.
JO: The explanation why it will be instrumentally helpful to say reify consciousness is simply to have the ability to totally acknowledge the extent to which it’s untainted by its contents.
MT: There’s that however it may not be the usefulness that’s essential there a lot because the sort of non secular emotions of consciousness as being sort of the one factor the one substance so it’s that’s the place it begins to be this idealist monism.
JO: Okay, so say I’m within the place of the practitioner who’s been doing a bunch of Vipassana and dealing my method down your stack, and have reached the extent of consciousness the place all the pieces that’s showing, appears very wispy and empty, and I really feel like the notice that I’m is completely freed from these contents. How would I then begin poking holes in that recognition or increasing it in a broader context?
MT: Nicely, the only method is to simply invert the notice on itself, see that it’s empty. And that’s going to have a tendency to actually subvert the power to separate it from all the pieces. And that’s going to immediately make the subsequent strikes of then noticing that all the pieces that’s arising is just not separate from the notice, quite simple. However both method, the subsequent strikes are all about reintegrating expertise. So let’s say you discover a thought arising in that context. And whereas earlier than, we had been emphasizing effectively, consciousness is conscious of the thought and completely different than the thought, now you discover that the notice and the thought are composed of the identical materials. However lets say they’re not separate. And that’s actually necessary.
So that you begin reintegrating all expertise. And that’s the place these different nondualities will help. They’re not the crux of the difficulty, however they actually assist. So for instance, you probably have a sense that one thing is sacred, and one other factor is profane, however you begin noticing each are the inventive expressions of consciousness and never separate in any method from consciousness, then they can not have completely different ranges of sacredness and profanity. They’re both equally sacred or equally profane as a result of they’re shining with the identical gentle of consciousness, so to talk. That is the place you get all of the tantric stuff that seeks actually on function and to prohibited acts and to sort of revel within the profane is to note that that’s simply an thought, proper? Profanity and sacredness are one other class. And so we collapse that, and we are able to collapse the massive one, the massive Nondual 1 thought, that consciousness is sacred and the world is profane. Proper? So that individual one can actually assist, you had been mentioning that earlier.
After which we simply get right into a profusion of methods. However the level being there’s nothing in expertise that isn’t a inventive show of primordial purity, you realize, is often how we’d say that, or an decoration of vacancy is one other method I’d say it. The concept is: its vacancy is kind and kind is vacancy. They’re by no means really separate. It’s to not say they’re the identical factor. Once more, we’re not turning all of it into one grey goo, mush oatmeal situation. However they’re by no means separate.
JO: Proper. Okay, so I’m form of seeing–you and I’ve spoken about this earlier than–but when the Christian Unique Sin account is in some sense in regards to the daybreak of self-consciousness, and in that exact same daybreak, the daybreak of sin as impurity, then, like the popularity of the purity of consciousness, is subverting this concept of authentic sin. However then the popularity that all the pieces seems by no means was separate from it simply will get you off on a very completely different foot with respect to how tainted and horrible human beings are…and that sounds good to me.
MT: Yeah, it’s an completely completely different view, proper? And naturally, this is absolutely the view. And that doesn’t imply okay, which means I can rob, homicide, steal, rape my method by means of life. And that’s simply as sacred as anything. There’s robust prohibitions towards these sorts of concepts, after all. There’s all the time a option to make one thing right into a unfavorable model of itself. And so we’re strongly suggested to not go there. However then again, after we see the whole lot of the world because the mandala, the sacred show of consciousness itself, not ever separate from consciousness itself, there’s a sense wherein all the pieces is full, or all the pieces is in its proper place. I’m avoiding the phrase good as a result of issues can nonetheless, on the relative aircraft, be fairly terrible. However nonetheless, there’s a spot for awfulness within the mandala.
JO: Yeah, it’s not granting the right imperfect distinction, after which saying it simply so occurs contingently to fall on the facet of good that we reside in the most effective of all doable worlds. It’s saying previous to that distinction between good and imperfect, there’s a way wherein all of it suits.
MT: All of it coheres. Right.
JO: Yeah. Yeah. Since you talked about slightly bit earlier–and it’s acquainted to me from Dan Brown retreats–you talked about this primary step, or among the best first steps for starting to maneuver from Nondual 1 into Nondual 2 is that this gesture of inversion, inverting consciousness upon itself, to see itself as empty. Is that the identical factor as that ultimate quote, unquote, crossing-over instruction within the Dan Brown Mahamudra context?
MT: You already know, I’m not a Dan Brown instructor. So I don’t know what they’d say about it in that custom. However that’s what makes it rigpa, which is Nondual 2. Earlier to that, it’s nonetheless Nondual 1 till you invert consciousness upon itself, see its vacancy. Now it’s rigpa, proper? Now it’s totally awake consciousness.
JO: What does leaping over that chasm really feel like? In different phrases, like, how would one acknowledge the distinction between: all the pieces’s actually empty, I don’t really feel like I’m separate from it, and now it’s actually rigpa?
MT: I feel it’s completely different for various folks and completely different for a similar particular person on completely different days or with completely different approaches. However simply within the spirit of the query, I’ll reply and say all the pieces’s showing as empty, and you then invert consciousness on itself and see the vacancy of that, and it’s not trippy, it’s not all of a sudden hyper-cosmic or no matter. However any sense of any sort of separation is gone. And there’s a real sense of and I’ll simply use Dan’s phrases that he appreciated to make use of of huge, spacious freedom. I feel he known as it.
JO: Sure, spacious freedom.
MT: Spacious freedom, I all the time add the huge. Yeah, it’s spacious freedom. There’s simply this sense of actual spaciousness and freedom. And in addition, as you and I talked about a short time in the past, all the pieces simply being slightly brighter and clearer. Not essentially rather a lot, however slightly. And so that may sound slightly mundane, however when it’s really making use of to all elements of expertise, it’s fairly profound.
JO: Is that the identical or completely different than the ultimate step that you’ll typically educate and it’s–I get that it doesn’t need to be the ultimate step, however it helps to be this fashion–of seeing the vacancy of the doer or the meditator?
MT: I feel that’s a unique transfer that may typically do one thing comparable. However I’d say that it’s potential that you would see the vacancy of the doer and nonetheless have an thought of consciousness as a reified factor. And so we need to actually let go of the reification of even consciousness itself.
JO: So, as this form of growing recognition of Nondual 2 develops, what does it appear to be to form of more and more carry that off the cushion and into one’s life on this planet, as that understanding begins to develop?
MT: Nicely, if you take Nondual 1 off the cushion and combine it into the world, it doesn’t combine, it separates. As you mentioned, you progress in an asceticism course, you progress to separate your self from all of the mundane actions as a result of these are likely to embroil one within the delusion of the world. And also you’re going to are likely to need to go be aside and sort of sit there and dwell in consciousness itself. And so it has an actual signature of aloofness, which, after all, is one other method of claiming, transcendental, proper? We turn out to be aloof, we’re increased than all of it.
That’s to not say that these traditions don’t enable practitioners to interact in life and so forth. However to the extent that you just cease partaking on this planet, you’re often applauded as somebody who’s sort of getting it. Whereas the Nondual 2 traditions transfer in the other way, proper, we’re going to interact extra powerfully, have interaction with extra enthusiasm, power, readability, humor, brilliance, no matter. We’re coming into the world as we see each a part of expertise as not separate from our deepest meditation expertise of consciousness itself. And so to sluggish that transfer down slightly bit, sometimes, we do first expertise Nondual 2 stuff, the nonduality of vacancy and kind, nonetheless below a sort of meditative laboratory situations someplace, you’re in a retreat, otherwise you’re in a quiet meditation in a quiet room, often together with your eyes open, as a result of once more, we’re together with the world from the very starting. However nonetheless minimalist situations, and possibly we are able to solely discover that, acknowledge this awake consciousness below these situations. And so it’s sort of in an unstable method, the minute we transfer, the minute something occurs, it sort of collapses.
And so as soon as we’ve got the slightest view of awake consciousness, which is, by the best way, an enormous deal, not when it comes to expertise, it may appear sort of cool, however it’s not essentially one thing that blows your doorways off. However it’s an enormous deal, since you now know what it appears like, so to talk, in scare quotes, then a lot of the path turns into about simply stabilizing that. And it’s not a particular state, it’s not a particular expertise, we’re attempting to stabilize, actually, the stabilization implies that we’re capable of keep that awake consciousness view all through each sort of state, all through each sort of expertise, all through the six realms, to talk in that method. So it’s completely different. Typically I hear folks say, Nicely, you possibly can’t keep rigpa, as a result of that’s only a state and states can’t be maintained. However that’s a mistake. Psychological states and experiences come up inside rigpa. So really, we are able to stabilize our recognition, we are able to stabilize our view. Or to place it in barely extra right language, we are able to cease falling out of the view, as a result of the view of awake consciousness is definitely basic.
JO: Perhaps this might be a superb place to usher in this distinction between sudden and gradual, which regularly will get invoked when speaking about nonduality. How do you see the connection between nonduality and suddenness or gradualness of awakening?
MT: So we have to add one other idea in right here to make this work. And that’s the primacy of consciousness itself. Even in probably the most Nondual 2 traditions, there’s the thought of the primacy of awake consciousness, or let’s say buddha nature or the tathagatagarbha or no matter, as one thing that’s earlier to our human expertise, earlier to our expertise of separateness, earlier to our sense of ourselves as a struggling, sentient being attempting to schlep our method by means of samsara. And so, that concept is central. In different phrases, everybody listening is already at their root a bodhisattva, already at their root, a completely woke up buddha in some sense, and that that simply must be revealed and even, to place it in higher language, acknowledged, not that it must be cultivated or generated or in some way created.
And so, as soon as we’re coming from that place, which is a quite common place for each Nondual 1 and Nondual 2 to level to, the primacy of consciousness, then we’ve got the potential for prompt awakening. Which does really occur to some small phase of the inhabitants. Vanishingly small, extremely uncommon. However some folks upon simply listening to the concept that you’re already simply this shining consciousness that’s not separate from something, simply acknowledge that in that second, after which it’s maintained stably perpetually. And in order that does occur.
JO: So I suppose you would most likely make a distinction between sudden enlightenment, within the sense of you get it identified, and you then’ve already accomplished the stabilization, and sudden awakening within the sense of like a declaring instruction that you could be however need to stabilize.
MT: Yeah, these could be completely different. Thanks. That’s an attention-grabbing distinction. However it doesn’t actually impression the purpose I’m attempting to make, which is, we now have, primarily based on this concept that you just’re in some sense already totally awake, we now can method that in two other ways. We are able to method it from the view of a sentient being, from the conventional view of me as an egoic being attempting to work my method in the direction of that. Or we are able to flip it on its head and say, Geez, working from the point of view of an egoic being, a sentient being, is already improper, already getting in the best way and let’s work as if we’re already a buddha, wherein case, possibly no work is required, however you simply acknowledge it, and also you’re accomplished. And so in a method that’s philosophically extra pure, since you’re simply effectively, if it’s true, that you just’re already a buddha, then simply acknowledge that proper now. And when you can’t, then we’re nonetheless simply going to honor that chance. And our total apply is actually sitting there till you do acknowledge it, which is likely to be very gradual, by the best way, paradoxically.
However after all, the folks doing these traditions are sensible, they usually–over the various centuries and even millennia–have seen all these little contradictions and gotchas. And sometimes, it’s slightly extra nuanced than that, such as you talked about, declaring. And declaring is a extremely fascinating factor, which is you possibly can take somebody off the road who’s by no means meditated a day of their life. And in about three minutes, start to indicate them, even when it’s not awake consciousness, you can begin to indicate them consciousness, and to separate that from expertise in a method, or to indicate how that’s completely different than their each day expertise. And so if that goes deep sufficient you would even have somebody have at the very least, as you introduced up, at the very least a mini expertise of awakening, proper there. And what’s so cool about that, is you could then use that second of recognition that they’ve skilled as the idea for his or her apply. For instance, in plenty of Dzogchen contexts, you get identified first, like, right here’s what awake consciousness appears like, you’ve had at the very least a glimpse of it regardless of how muddy and partial and obscured, however at the very least, you realize, the course of it, so to talk. After which after we begin doing our meditation apply, if we do it from even that imperfect glimpse, we’re nonetheless miles forward, as a result of we all know the place we’re going, in a way, regardless that there’s nowhere to go.
JO: Yeah, okay, so possibly this might be a superb place to usher in this query of, to what extent completely different traditions really honor the total recognition of nonduality, that you just’re claiming the understanding of Nondual 2? The form of gradual approaches that we’ve been speaking about are typically related to Theravada, the place you’re doing Vipassana, at the very least at first, from a form of dualistic posture. And there’s this complete body of purification and fetters and all this form of renunciative language. Do you suppose the total realization of say for instance, like fourth path is Nondual 2 or Nondual 1?
MT: You already know, it’s a tough query, particularly as a result of Theravada has interacted with these Nondual 2 traditions for a thousand years or fifteen hundred years. And so it, itself, has modified to react to that. And you’ll see hints, even within the phrases of the historic Buddha within the Pali Canon, that appear to trace at Nondual 2, like for nearly all the Pali Canon the Buddha will solely speak about Nirvana in unfavorable phrases. You already know, what it’s not. It’s timeless, and it’s unborn and it’s uncreated and all that. However there are a pair spots the place he talks about it in optimistic language and says one thing prefer it’s unalloyed bliss or one thing, he says a number of issues like that, which might nonetheless doubtlessly be Nondual 1. However there are some hints that begin to sound extra like Nondual 2. However I’d say as some extent of clarification, basically, more often than not, the best way folks work in a Theravada context goes to be both dualistic or at greatest Nondual 1.
JO: Yeah. So when you’re doing form of Vipassana with this three traits body, and also you’re utilizing anatta, the anatta being acknowledged there as this Nondual 1 perception.
MT: It’s going to result in it as I mentioned earlier, you’ve received to break down at the very least one facet of the duality and there you’re collapsing the self finish of the stick. And so that you’re going to at the very least get the non-separation of self and different. And vacancy arises in later Buddhism as a wider idea as a result of it may be utilized to issues that no one, within the early Buddhist context imagined, had a self. No person thought a rock had a self, they weren’t animists–definitely not a self in the best way an individual needed to promote. And so it will have been bizarre to speak in regards to the anatta of a rock.
JO: Proper.
MT: However vacancy is the anatta of a rock, basically, it’s the not-thingness of it. And so it’s a deeper and broader idea. However we are able to consider it as an unpacking of the implications of anatta.
JO: I feel that is really very useful for folks as a result of one of many extraordinarily widespread misunderstandings, particularly in a Western context of even simply Nondual 1 is that you must eliminate sure purposeful features of your self-construct, like the truth that you possibly can discern the boundaries of your physique. There’s this complete body of: there’s one thing to be gotten rid of that was showing, versus seen as empty.
MT: That’s proper. And a part of that’s only a misunderstanding however a part of it’s experiential. I imply, when you do early Buddhist meditation methods, which, by the best way, I’m an enormous fan of, I don’t suppose there’s something improper with them, I feel they’re highly effective, there’s simply extra to do. However when you’re doing many of those methods you’re doing a Vipassana deconstruction of the sense of self or no matter, particularly on a protracted retreat, it may be the case that slightly than seeing the vacancy of self, you simply have it cease, the entire self-construct stops or falls aside, or attenuates to the purpose of completely not arising. And so there’s an anatta, or numerous anattas which are partial or full, simply stopping of the sense of self in a method, which might make it not possible to perform strolling round on this planet, however that are very spectacular and intense, and do assist you to see by means of the development of self as a result of how am I nonetheless having an expertise when the sense of self is totally gone? is an enormous perception. Proper?
JO: Proper.
MT: So these occur, and they are often then confused with the perception of no-self that comes from simply seeing by means of the constructed-ness of it, whereas nonetheless having or not it’s totally purposeful, which after all is what we wish.
JO: Which is the excellence that the thought of vacancy was launched to make.
MT: I feel it actually helps. Yeah, but in addition the excellence is included so that you could see the no-self of a rock.
JO: Proper. So, vacancy is the blanket class, you possibly can speak in regards to the vacancy of individuals, or the vacancy of phenomena, the vacancy of individuals is not-self, the vacancy of phenomena is simply their vacancy. In each circumstances, what’s lacking is a few imputed essence or impartial existence.
MT: Right. I imply, the thought of vacancy to me is–the most effective metaphor is the metaphor of phrases in a dictionary, which you’ve heard me use earlier than. Each phrase in a dictionary, when you attempt to outline the phrase, it’s outlined utilizing different phrases, and you then go to outline these phrases, and people are outlined by different phrases, you go to outline these phrases, and people are outlined by different phrases that may even be a bunch of the unique phrases. And it’s not like that’s ineffective. That’s extremely helpful. They exist in a community of relationships. Lets say they come up depending on one another. And we’ve got this extremely advanced community of relationships. However you possibly can’t, anyplace in there, discover a basic phrase, the one that’s actual, that provides all of them their realness. It is a community of relationships that may solely exist due to all the connection. There’s nothing that in some way breaks out of that community and finds itself embedded in a deeper floor.
JO: That gives a form of basic ontology or like ultimate floor.
MT: Sure. So it’s actually helpful. It’s not like that community is in some way–due to this fact we simply throw all of it out. However neither is it actual on this deeper ontological sense, as you mentioned.
JO: So that you introduced up slightly bit of those optimistic qualities of Nondual 2, particularly just like the extra you form of transfer into the popularity of Nondual 2, the much less you’re so involved to just remember to’re not reifying something. And so I’m not saying you give up, that vigilance. However the much less of a risk there’s that the looks of phenomena will threaten your pristine vacancy and so the optimistic qualities of consciousness can begin to manifest. I suppose there I’d simply have you ever communicate to these optimistic qualities and possibly what the connection is between them and compassion or like compassionate exercise on this planet?
MT: Yeah, the compassion high quality can begin arising strongly with Nondual 1, merely since you’re not categorically separate. You’re not experiencing your self as this atomized outdoors entity, however slightly deeply intertwined with all the pieces that’s co-arising. And so once more, this may sound so psychological and so philosophical however the expertise is poignant and intense and bare and direct–it’s not psychological in any respect–of the preciousness of residing issues, particularly as you get a style of the enjoyment and freedom of residing outdoors of dualistic classes. There’s a sort of eager to share that with others, like, Hey, you’re trapped in your thoughts, you realize, you simply take this sort of sideways step, and the issue is gone. And also you form of naturally need to share that.
It’s not that we are able to get this view of compassion as some sort of hyper-lofty advantage that we’re attempting to domesticate actually onerous. However really, it’s proper there, it’s the factor that comes bursting forth, the minute dualism drops. For this reason oftentimes, consciousness is modeled, I hear lots of people modeling it as this sort of aloof neutrality that’s in some way not solely transcendent of all issues but in addition is completely impartial. And it’s actually not impartial. The knowledge of vacancy all the time comes along with compassion. They’re by no means separate. And actually, in the event that they appear to be, then your knowledge is missing. One thing is just not full there. Since you’re going to constantly be pulled an increasing number of into relationship. That’s even utilizing the improper verb. It’s that you just acknowledge an increasing number of that there’s nothing happening besides relationship.
JO: Proper. You had been by no means out of relationship. Yeah.
MT: Yeah. And in order that turns into central. So compassion is the best phrase. However it doesn’t have all of the connotations I want it did. As a result of it will be like, as you see the knowledge of vacancy an increasing number of deeply, the dance of relationship turns into an increasing number of highly effective, an increasing number of lovely, an increasing number of central.
JO: And the compassion, as an angle, as you say, can present up very strongly as much as and together with Nondual 1 however the expression of that angle of compassion as relationship is far more vividly realized in Nondual 2 since you’re not asserting your differentiation from the world.
MT: That’s proper, it turns into central in Nondual 2. Yeah, after all, if we go to the historical past of Buddhism, the place we get the primacy of compassion, beginning to be talked about is in Mahayana Buddhism, the place in addition they–it’s the primary time they had been emphasizing the nonduality of vacancy and kind. So these two issues appear to come back collectively and experientially that’s definitely the case.
JO: Okay, so if our hypothetically completely enlightened, Nondual 2 one that’s now totally inhabiting the world, in some sense that’s nearly precisely the identical as they had been earlier than. And if that would have been acknowledged from the outset as a result of vacancy and kind had been by no means separate. What’s completely different about that completely realized particular person’s expertise and conduct from the one who has by no means heard of any of these items in any respect?
MT: Their conduct is likely to be indistinguishable, however their expertise goes to be completely completely different, completely completely different, proper? The entire definition of what’s modified is that their expertise is totally modified. And one would hope that their conduct appears fairly completely different as effectively. However it may not. And the rationale I’m saying it that method is as a result of there’s no explicit conduct that we might level to and say, effectively, that’s Nondual 2 conduct.
JO: Proper.
MT: And if we might, then you would do the factor that many individuals do, which is then simply attempt to imitate the conduct. So I’d say, Nicely, you may not have the ability to, however simply once more, within the spirit of the query, I’d say, they most likely are going to appear much more inventive and engaged and be in what we’d acknowledge as one thing of a stream state extra typically. And moreover, they’re most likely going to are typically useful, that’s the easiest way to place it. It’s not that they’re essentially a cartoon of compassion, however they’re going to are typically fairly useful in a method or one other.
JO: And regardless that you couldn’t essentially acknowledge from any given motion, oh, sure, that’s Nondual 2 motion, over a protracted time frame, it’s best to most likely count on them to be say extra spontaneous, or extra compassionate, or no matter.
MT: Yeah, if we had been to get into optimistic qualities. And I feel these are extra recognizable from inside than with out. However they’d present with out. They’re going to be spontaneous, childlike, excessive power, humorous, and engaged. They are typically dynamos of power, and in addition actually fluid actually spontaneous, and typically hanging, like lightning, very sudden and sudden. However there’s no temper, it’s not like, Oh, they’re all the time externally joyful, or all the time externally this or that. It will probably look many alternative methods. And the extra that somebody is sort of rigidly seeming to have one explicit emotional state on a regular basis, it’s most likely extra seemingly that they’re appearing slightly than being.
JO: They’re taking over some fixated, routine sample once more, that mimics the–
MT: Sure.
JO: –the spontaneity. Yeah.
MT: However nonetheless, there are paths the place we do exactly take these properties of spontaneity and compassion and flow-state sort stuff and childlike conduct and all that and simply begin attempting to be that method as a lot as doable. That might be, let’s say, one thing like Taoism, the place you begin working with that. And since you’re performing the qualities, with instruction and meditation, and with the best assist, that does assist lead in that course.
JO: Yeah, a part of the rationale I ask is that within the spirit of asking, Nicely, what’s all this nonduality enterprise good for? I definitely perceive why it will be good from the within. And as you say, the interior expertise of being unfixated is completely completely different in a optimistic course. However one can surprise on the idea of the misbehavior of assorted folks, particularly taking over this view, proper that nothing to do precisely, and no inner authorities aside from the spontaneity of consciousness, a method of placing it’s whether or not there’s something you would say about it being a contemplative misunderstanding, slightly than an absence of simply different schools, you may need to be taught as a result of if anyone misbehaves, very palpably, from the vantage level of their awakening, is there anyplace to face to say they weren’t really recognizing Nondual 2?
MT: I feel there’s, I feel that in the event that they had been deeply recognizing or totally recognizing, it will be very onerous to do any conduct that was explicitly malfeasant. It’s not that they couldn’t harm somebody. As a result of typically hurting folks is important, for instance, some sort of trolley downside or one thing. However the form of simply straight-up malfeasance, taking of actions which are harming others merely for gratification. I feel that that straight signifies that they’re not really totally there. But in addition any custom that has survived, the traditions which are nonetheless right here, explicitly say this over and over: you don’t use this philosophy to behave badly on this planet. You aren’t to try this. And it is likely to be they’re simply attempting to guard their reputations. However I don’t suppose so, I feel they’re saying like, identical to anything, you possibly can misuse this. And the true space of misuse is just not the people who find themselves totally awake or totally liberated, however the people who find themselves partially awake, who use this as license to behave badly, that’s an actual hazard zone. And so, traditions have put quite a lot of guardrails in there and coaching wheels to be sure that doesn’t occur. However after all, it nonetheless occurs.
JO: In some sense when you’re taking over the mantle of the purity of consciousness to justify the ethics of your actions, that’s, in some sense, identical to not totally recognizing Nondual 2 since you’re claiming some place from outdoors the contingent regulation or ethical code or no matter of transcendental justification. It’s typically–it’s simply an expression of that distinction. Yeah.
MT: Yeah. And it all the time finally ends up the excuse. There’s sort of two excuses. However the typical one is: it was a educating, the particular person I harmed I used to be attempting to take away their dualism about this hurt or one thing.
JO: I needed to sleep with their spouse, don’t you see?
MT: Yeah, with the intention to crush their dualistic attachment. And that’s an actual apparent downside. The opposite one, which I feel is sort of attention-grabbing, and nearly worse, is: my awakening was so deep. I like didn’t see the boundary I used to be crossing. To me, that’s this bizarre humblebrag the place you’re utilizing your crime to speak about how awake you might be. But in addition, it’s a deep misunderstanding. It’s the factor you had been saying earlier, Jake, we don’t lose distinction. We don’t lose decision.
JO: There’s this lovely phrase from the custom to seize that of like, view as huge because the sky, conduct as positive as barley flour. Yeah, all of the distinctions are nonetheless there. Yeah.
MT: Yeah. So what stuff haven’t we talked about that you just’re excited or to speak about?
JO: I suppose there’s some stuff about–in what sense is that this, or is that this not God? However you inform me whether or not you suppose there’s extra you’d prefer to say there?
MT: It will get dicey. as a result of all of it depends upon what you imply by God.
JO: Proper.
MT: Is it a creator being? Is it the prime explanation for the universe, or what? However you possibly can definitely have, even Nondual 2 traditions which have, some sort of relationship, possibly even a central relationship, with at the very least a stand-in for form of an final precept. Even when the last word precept is empty, it’s nonetheless the bottom layer. So even in Dzogchen you’ve received Samantabhadra. Proper, Kuntuzangpo, who’s the–not image of–however is the personification of awake consciousness or the bottom of being? Proper? And there it’s, and, and also you’ve received loads of Dzogchen practitioners praying to Kuntuzangpo to assist them to turn out to be liberated and so forth. And certain, within the custom, they are saying over and over, effectively, that’s not God and that’s merely a personification of awake consciousness, your individual rigpa or no matter, or dharmakaya.
Finally, all these distinctions between the dharmakaya, and the bottom of being, and rigpa, and all that, which lastly at one level, are all dissolved, mainly in expertise. However we are able to, from one finish of the argument, say, Nicely, clearly they’re conscious that this might be mistaken for a god and they also’re saying it’s not God and it’s empty and so forth. Okay, however in one other method, in what method is that not God? As form of this final awake consciousness that doesn’t die between incarnations and so forth, it’s there perpetually. And similar factor is there in nondual Shaiva Tantra with Shiva and Shakti as a result of even in Dzogchen Samantabhadra has his consort, Samatabhadri. In a method, they’re very comparable personifications.
So once more, the traditions insist that these are personifications, and many others, and many others. And but, it’s fairly onerous to land on what is likely to be the necessary distinction, besides the dualistic one, which is: effectively, it’s separate for me in some basic method. That’s, after all, what the traditions are so adamant about dissolving.
JO: Most likely at the very least some variations of the supernatural one too, proper, within the sense of, like, can intervene within the legal guidelines of physics, however–
MT: However boy, in all of the traditions that declare it’s not God, and so forth, that sort of intervention is whole, however you possibly can change something, you possibly can flip your physique right into a rainbow, you’ve heard of Rainbow Physique, proper?
JO: Yeah.
MT: However there’s an excellent deeper type of Rainbow Physique. I feel it’s known as Nice Transcendent Rainbow Physique, you possibly can seem as a completely manifesting human being after which simply disappear once more after which seem over right here and disappear once more, and so forth. And so definitely any thought of the legal guidelines of physics not being transcended is blown away by these sorts of ideas. I feel what’s necessary right here is that they’re by no means saying that it’s a separate, transcendent entity that’s in some way perpetually separate in the best way {that a} dualistic Western creator god is.
JO: The legal guidelines of physics are to be seen, in the identical sense as every other conceptual look.
MT: Completely.
JO: Now you’ve intrigued me by invoking Rainbow Physique and a few of these types of extra supernatural claims which are made on the idea of those experiences. Okay, so this sense of it being deathless in some necessary sense, as a result of it persists throughout any obvious incarnation. That’s one definitely you’ve borne out in your expertise. Is there a spot the place you say, I am going this far and no additional with the normal supernatural claims? Or is it a wait-and-see? Or how do you consider it?
MT: It’s a wait-and-see, I imply, in any other case, I’d declare to have superior data to those of us. And whereas I’m not bowing to them as the last word supply of data, I’m additionally not saying essentially I do know higher. However I’ll say this, I’m not certified to show Rainbow Physique apply, and neither am I presently attempting to realize that.
JO: Proper.
MT: So I’ll simply say, effectively, that’s above my pay grade. I’ll let anyone else fear about it. Yeah, as a result of I don’t know.
JO: Superior, okay, anything that you just suppose we’ve missed, or that you’d like to cowl? Earlier than we name it?
MT: The entire function of this dialogue, for me, is to assist folks perceive that the phrase nondual is used very in another way in several traditions to imply actually various things. And so after we name one thing nondual, and we name one other factor nondual, they is likely to be completely completely different. They usually may speak about what they’re attempting to realize fairly in another way, and learn how to get there fairly in another way. And so we’ve got to acknowledge these distinctions with the intention to navigate this territory with the least quantity of issues. And in order that’s the entire level right here. Not that you just in some way need to know all this to meditate, or you must know all this to have the expertise. Clearly, you don’t. As a result of today, all these traditions are fully obtainable utilizing a browser or no matter. We would mistake them for one another or suppose they’re speaking about comparable issues. And also you’re going to finish up very, very confused. Whereas hopefully this dialogue if nothing else, goes to assist at the very least clear up slightly little bit of that confusion.
JO: Stunning. I hope so. It was nice enjoyable for me. Thanks a lot for having me.
Yeah, enjoyable for me too. And I actually recognize you being keen to come back on the present and ask all these questions, Jake. So thanks a lot.
JO: My pleasure.
MT: All proper, man.
