Post by Reefs on Sept 13, 2020 22:54:44 GMT -5
Just to recap, kensho literally means seeing into your own nature. And that doesn't happen from the SVP perspective. Which means what is happening there is Source seeing Source as Source, directly. In-betweenness is classic SVP perspective.
So what he's describing in the video sounds more like woo-woo + TMT. Actually, his analogy and explanation could have been straight from a Seth book.
Insights are not realizations. Insights belong to the relative realm. What we call kensho is not an insight, it's a realization. Realizations belong to the absolute realm. Which means by definition kensho cannot be a woo-woo experience. These are very important distinctions. That's why I rarely use the dream analogy, it's only confusing people and then they drift off into TMT-land. The wave analogy is much safer in that regard.
Yes, individual cases are all different. But there are common denominators, and that's what I am trying to point out. And the main common denominator is that there's a sudden, radical shift in perspective, that happens in no time. And that 'new' perspective (it's not new, actually) is so radically different and foreign to the SVP perspective, that the SVP could have never imagined that, in fact, the SVP has no clue whatsoever that such a perspective even exists or could be possible. You know how these conversations go, to the SVP the non-dual perspective sounds just like another belief system.
In the past, my theory was that the deeper someone was stuck in beliefs about reality, the bigger the woo-woo in the event of realization. Similar to a huge artificial structure collapsing in free fall via explosives. Some people tend to build huge belief structures which come down with a lot of noise and leave a lot of debris to sort thru in the aftermath, a real spectacle; others only build tiny belief huts that a strong wind can already blow down and there won't be much left on the ground either in the aftermath, so there's not much to write home about. And this is independent of culture. How that is then conceptualized, the informing of mind process, that's where culture and the individual background story come back into the picture. Nothing happens in a vacuum, as I keep saying. But the experience shouldn't be mixed up with the realization. Unfortunately, the realization doesn't compute for the seeker. So the entire focus of the seeker is usually on the surrounding experiences, which usually will be compared and categorized. But that's a distraction, obviously. Because those experiences are optional, not essential. To the seeker though, who only knows experiences, they seem essential. That's basically the dilemma we are facing when talking about CC/kensho.