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#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans

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Kensho Questions

Questions about Kensho experiences serve two purposes:

  1. Confirm the experience's authenticity.
  2. Deepen exploration of the Kensho experience. These questions reveal that the altered perception from Kensho isn't separate from, but rather integrated with, everyday experience.

My Note:

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[6237.630 sec] So they are, number one, the way we respond to them will confirm that we've really experienced this thing. [6250.641 sec] Secondly, they will somehow help us explore it even more deeply. [6260.769 sec] Now that actually doesn't mean that it's an entity other than us thaut we've experiencedit. [6268.655 sec] No, it's more like my experience has shifted in a certain way, which is really opened up a different way of experiencing altogether. [6280.344 sec] And these probing questions allow me to inhabit this new way of experiencing more. [6294.175 sec] And they allow me, or they help me, to realize that this new way of experiencing is actually not contradictory to my ordinary way of experiencing. [6307.986 sec] In other words, i can start to see that this mind blowing sort of other dimension, for want of better phrasing is, in fact, present in my everyday experience. [6325.961 sec] That's what it's really trying to do. Its to help me tsoa serd of less know it as this other weirdness, mind blowing and lovely though it may be, its other ands, a sort of, actually, wow, i'm living this all the time and i didn't realize.

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