LessWrong rationalist has kensho, attempts valiantly to explain to other LessWrong rationalists, frustration ensues.
As @xuenay suggests, closely parallel to difficulties in explaining meta-rationality—and not by coincidence!https://twitter.com/xuenay/status/955103078893674496 …
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Rationalists say: show us some practical thing this “enlightenment” is good for, then maybe we’ll be interested. Obviously, this totally misses the point. But… Isn’t that a reasonable question?
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Zen and Theravada often fetishize kensho/stream-entry as The Big Deal. Vajrayana takes it as just the initial insight that makes the real work possible. “The real work” *should* have demonstrable practical consequences:https://vividness.live/2012/09/25/mastery/ …
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A parable about the “real work” that begins after kensho:https://vividness.live/2013/12/12/emptiness-zen-tantra-dzogchen/ …
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Oh, interesting analogy!
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