jay garfield
Zen master Dogen said:-
- To study Buddhism is to study the self.
- To study the self is to forget the self.
- To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.
- To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between oneself and others.
- this is a perfect example of the feynman technique
- jay clearly has a very deep understanding of buddhism and non duality
- I recommend his videos and book "losing ourselves"
- this video speaks volumes, it summarizes the essence of all of the content here
- of all the content I've been exposed to on meditation jay explains it better than chat gpt or any human I've heard teach
- chat gpt has no conent for jay, I'm sending feedback on that
extinguishing illusions
- the confusion is something that appears one way and exists in another
root cause
- it is not non existent
- it's mode of existence vs mode of appearance
- immediate condition: attraction & aversion
- root cause is confusion about the nature of reality
profound confusion on the nature of reality
- first aspect
- that we can be aware of the contents of our own mind
- second aspect
- superimposition of a subject object duality on the primordially non dual
types of confusions