I do as well. I also think of Mara looking on the Buddha after, and wondering: has desire changed, or does this one not have a heart?https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1245837701372313600 …
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Replying to @bsod_nams
The peacefulness & equanimity is important. But so for me is the element of immediate empiricism, a sober honesty. When in the story Mara demands to know by what authority the Buddha understands himself enabled to pursue awakening, Buddha just reaches down and touches the earth.pic.twitter.com/x12jeBEFRc
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Replying to @ShibumiKiDoZen @bsod_nams
It's a many-sided topic, but for me language that's mythic & poetic isn't anti-empiricist when it's understood as celebration of, and guidance for, an empiric experiential practice. As in the Kalama Sutta, in the end, the Buddha-teaching is effectively "go and look for yourself."
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Precisely: Vijñāna->Jñāna. Lusthaus describes it thus: "stepping back from consciousness' appropriational circuit, losing the vi-jñāna that distances itself from things in order to make them appropriatable, so that jñāna—direct, immediate cognition, shorn of the vi—emerges."
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Replying to @NoaidiX @ShibumiKiDoZen and
Etymologically, jñāna and gnosis share the same root. This is a "knowing" that transcends the empirical sphere.
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To know and see "things" as they are (yathā-bhūta-ñāna-dassana | yathā-bhūta-jñāna-darśana) is exactly this sort of knowing.
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"knowing" that transcends the empirical sphere." This is a transference of the locus of cognition, where the center of gravity of the self has shifted away from the karmic reaction to impressions, becoming an intentional response. Or not.
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That transference of locus and shift in gravity can be experienced as pivots in perspective. Such movement may come on suddenly, but it's often accompanied by myriad after-shocks in an ongoing process of adjustment. At least that's been my ever-evolving experience. 
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