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452. Ken Wilber

Buddha at the Gas Pump

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The Unification of Samsara and Nirvana

To experience enlightenment in today's world is not to become any freer than the ancient sages since emptiness doesn't change, says Andrew Goldboudism. The idea was that you had to get off the world of samsara and embrace just the world of nirvana. But then Nagarjana came along and he said they're not split; there's a deeper unity underlying them. And so with that we got a whole switch in ideal from an air hat who promises to get into nirvana and get off the World of Samsara forever to the Bodhisattva who promised never to get lost in just Nirvana.

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