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A Few Stray Points about Nonduality with Jake Orthwein

Deconstructing Yourself

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The Importance of Distinction

In some sense, if you're taking up the mantle of the purity of awareness to justify the ethics of your actions, that is in some sense just like not fully recognizing non-dual too. And it's always ends up the excuse, there's kind of two excuses, but the typical one is it was a teaching. To me, that's this weird humble brag where you're using your crime to talk about how awake you are. But also, it's a deep misunderstanding. It's the thing you were saying earlier, Jake, we don't lose distinction. We don't lose resolution. There's this beautiful phrase from the tradition to capture that of view as vast as the

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