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I have to disagree with Michael (1:08:40). We need to be able to differentiate between 'subjective experience' and 'knowing'. Subjective experience is everything we perceive from our eight senses: mind (thoughts - language & images), sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, interoception and proprioception. Knowledge (or 'knowing') is information (facts) + skills. We don't 'know' that music is 'good' (unless we are knowledgable about music). We do have subjective experience of enjoying music (or not enjoying it!). Many people (myself included!) enjoy music that an expert in music might consider to be not good! Feeling warm or cold when we walk outside is not a 'knowing', it is a subjective experience. If you've just been cleaning the house, and I just got out of a warm bed, then walking outside is going to be a different subjective experience for each of us (you'll be warm and I'll be cold!). Knowledge is that subjective experience + knowing the actual temperature + knowing what is considered a warm/cold temperature for your part of the world. Love is a subjective experience. You knew to protect your nephew from the fire because you had prior knowledge that fire could harm your nephew. Love might provide an impetus or motivation or arousal to act, but knowledge is required to act wisely. Lots of harm is inflicted by people who confuse subjective experience with knowledge.
Fascinating! Bought the book, and can't wait to read it, thank you! Really does motivate me to change my habits to help change the Earth for the better.
Quantum mechanics describes the mechanism of Force. Force is expansive and orthogonal at the surface. Surface tension resulting orthogonal force resists the expansive force. So surface tension describes the elasticity of the surface of molecules. The observations of particles is that of expanding 720 twisting expanding light viewed from matter with life, which is the resultant of all forces expanding
That was a great series of lectures, to be viewed again as more viewings reveal more insight. It helps to disentangle oneself from the tendency to reify both Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics. For me, the ultimate value of Professor Bitbol's eloquent and clear lectures is for the practice of meditation, where the instrument of reification, thinking, is a barrier to deeper insights. Dogen's advice to think non-thinking--not an easy process--is greatly supported by this great series of Professor Bitbol. Thank you.
I think it's important to distinguish between groundlessness (lack of foundation) and complete lack of access to reality. Saying that reality is groundless in the sense that there is nothing in it that "stands on its own", nothing that has intrinsic independent existence, doesn't equal to saying that we cannot ever access nor participate directly in reality. Reality may be relational and everything may be co-dependently originated, so that you cannot point to something and make it foundational, but we are part of reality and as such we directly experience it, even though we cannot fully "embrace" it. We cannot hold nor behold reality (comprehend it) as if from outside of it. We can only participate in it from within, therefore we can only have a partial understanding of it and no part is foundational, no part on its own is the key to unlock the understanding of the whole; but this doesn't mean that there is an impenetrable screen that divides us from reality and prevents us from accessing it. On the contrary, we're in it; which is why it transcends us. In fact, just because everything is related to everything else, there cannot be any impenetrable screen that separates us from reality.
I'm amazed how people (learners/seekers, etc) haven't picked up on the content produced by this amazing group of people. It's simply top-notch! Thanks.
Thanks, I enjoyed that. However, in a flow-state I experience a profound sense of oneness in addition to enhanced skills relevant to that situation both of which aren't 'present' when I'm walking, for example. Therefore, a loss of conscious awareness rather than agency seems to be the distinguishing factor between flow from automaticity.
Rainbow body is associated with Sokushin-jōbutsu or Prayopavesa Before death, a person drink various toxic mixtures of herbs that can cause phenomenon of bioluminescence
When I was first studying yoga in college I met a Hopi elder who died three months later, that night I believe he visited me in dream state and gave me a teaching on, what I called, the Body of Light. I later became a Vajrayana practitioner, several years ago during Ngondro purification I witnessed a cloud of grey light leave my body. Light practices are really quiet extraordinary, Clear Light meditation during sleep and the various Guru Yogas, as well as Kriya or Shinay produce intense light absorption states in the Mind. Thank you for your work on this subject.
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