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Elephant in the Room
Neuroscience has been forming some interesting ideas, and they have the potential to be very useful if not literally true. Our concept of self is imperfect. Neuroscience is exploring how and why this might be so from a physicalist and mechanical point of view, but there have been schools of mysticism that have understood this…
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Blind Man’s Elephant
I have seen people use silence as a way to get someone to say things they don’t want to. They just ask a question and stare at you, not saying a word and letting you stew in the silence. That is the way of Ganesha also, and the way of the genuine guru. If you…