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101 Contemplative, Existential Psychotherapy and Dzogchen
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast
Are You Just Talking About Condition Reality?
The Buddha said that this world is like a star at dawn. It's not as solid as we think it is. So the conditioned reality, basically the reality we live in almost all the time, we create it. We don't notice that we're participating in a reification of our experience. That reification is another way of talking about conditioned existence. Rather than facing out looking out to an objective world, including our ideas about ourself, which is in some sense objectifying ourself. The turn, the critical turn, not only in Buddhism, but in contemplative traditions of all stripes, is to turn that awareness around and say, you know, who says so? Who?
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