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A Few Stray Points about Nonduality with Jake Orthwein

Deconstructing Yourself

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The Importance of Reifying Awareness

As long as awareness is still kind of a thing, you're still in non dual one. You could potentially make a non dual to move there, but you might not. And this is why, for example, in many Buddhist contexts and also in the non duals, every ancient, ancient context, you're invited to notice the emptiness of the awareness itself. So that's where it starts to be this idealist monism. Okay. Well, and to think of it as a thing,. The reason why would be instrumentally useful to say reify awareness is just to be able to fully recognize the extent to which it's untainted by its contents. There's that, but it

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