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452. Ken Wilber

Buddha at the Gas Pump

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The Paradox of Witnessing

Patakiri said, the witness is the last stand of the ego. With that, the witness just completely disappeared and never she's this direct, radical oneness with everything that was arising. There's no separate self, no Ken Wilbur in that sense; I wasn't identified with that anymore than I was with the chair or the table or the woods outside. That was my true self. And that realization, again, it's paradoxical. You can realize it and understand that it's actually the only thing that's ever 100% real. But then as soon as you have this paradoxical waking up to that, then you realize that that's been this reality that you've known

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