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2 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt of Bob Thurman reflecting on the diversity of inner mental states and stages of awakening. Thurman contrasts extroverted cultural assumptions about a single, unitary mind with a richer landscape of subtle internal energies and many progressive stages (various satori) toward mastery and enlightenment.

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Our culture is so extroverted that we sort of think once you turn inward, it's sort of one place the mind, and then you're in the mind. Whereas, meanwhile, that's as diverse and various. The different states that you can attain in your mind through the internal. Mastering the internal energies at a subtler and subtler levels. Just as varied as the planet Earth. You know, with all the different countries and language, there's like, many byways and highways. So to us, we have some sort of breakthrough thing where it's like a big light or something. And then we think that's we're enlightened. Meanwhile, there are lots of stages of lots of satori, right?