Shamil Chandaria on awakening & the Bayesian brain | Living Mirrors #106
Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke
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The Power of Non-Dual Awareness
When we awaken to that sense of a non-dual awareness, that the normal sense of self and ego is a kind of a construction, several things happen. It's actually sort of like smoke and mirrors, more ephemeral. And it tends to lose its grip. So when we become aware that this is just arising, there's some emotion just to rising or there's some pain just to rising and I can be aware of that. Now we have room between stimulus and response. Because the story of suffering is simply that we just move between stimulus andresponse. We're stuck in our patterns. We can't break, we can't see the bigger picture.
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