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The Parallax View #88: The Beast, and the Whore

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The Paradox of Meditation

Hinduism has seven stages of Samadhi. With each stage a self-reflecting moment appears, but it is without words, without form. It's like what Buddhist, I think, called the witness or something. Like an initial thing you can't really grasp it because it's but it's there. And my my other question is why? Why? Just to flex that that you've been to that level meditatively and are capable of holding this paradoxical state for a time?"

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