Whose theory?
Self: MCTB says meditation can periodically land one in a ‘dark night of the soul,’ even the enlightened author!
Other: Abuse-of-power scandals often plague renowned gurus, an issue that I recall @Meaningness describing as seemingly intractable. And woo abounds.
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yet man is born into trouble as surely as the sparks fly upward
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if you act upon a person and it causes them discomfort and they cry "harm! harm!" at you you might not have harmed them because people are not good at evaluating their own state or the consequences of actions done by or to themselves.
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Yes, but now we’re talking about a third sense of the word enlightened, correct perception of the world, which is neither a persistently depressed DMN nor broadly-scoped compassion for others. These three senses are all in the vernacular, and they occur independently.
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the great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from
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and hey, many such cases, perception comes in all kinds of varieties including dim and impossible to retain
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. I’ve found heuristic truth in Leary’s take that one has to feel good to do good.
But operators tell me heightened states of blissful consciousness are also quite useful for killing.