5/20/2023 0 Comments Why buddhism is real![]() ![]() I had been awake but with no content for my consciousness. I heard the knock perfectly clearly, and upon hearing it I knew that, although there was no “waking up” before hearing the knock, for some indeterminate length of time prior to the knocking I had not been aware of anything in particular. “I had been meditating alone in my room all morning,” Mike recalls, It occurred in 1972, while he was on a meditation retreat. I didn’t tell Mike’s story in Rational Mysticism, but I’m going to tell it now, because it sheds light on enlightenment.īefore I met Mike, I read an article in which he claimed to have achieved a mystical state devoid of object, subject, or emotion. Another was a professor of philosophy who prefers to remain anonymous. I’ll call him Mike. One was the Buddhist teacher Stephen Batchelor, a profile of whom I just posted. ![]() I interviewed people with both scholarly and personal knowledge of mystical experiences. I ventured into this territory in my 2003 book Rational Mysticism. Wright explores the possibility that meditation can induce powerful mystical states, including the supreme state known as enlightenment. During a mystical experience, you feel as though you are encountering absolute reality, whatever the hell that is. ![]() Mysticism has been on my mind again lately, in part because of the success of Why Buddhism Is True by my friend Robert Wright. ![]()
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