I guess it’s a crux? That seems like a weird way to phrase it to me, though, because the words are not so much a logical claim as a way of pointing at the experience of realizing that my sense of a separate self is an ontological illusion and then knowing that “me” and “you” and “it” are not really separate things because of the interconnectedness of reality.
But I can imagine not experiencing universal love for all beings because I didn’t used to, or at least not in the same way. Like, if I think about it, I don’t know if I could have endorsed the statement “their life story is also mine and mine is theirs” prior to having some insights during meditation.
I can imagine there’s more nuance to it than how I experience universal love now. I don’t know what this looks like, but there being more nuance would fit the general pattern of most meditation insights: you get part of the picture and then there’s still more that will change how you think about things but not invalidate the current experience, although it might show that it was missing important things.
I guess it’s a crux? That seems like a weird way to phrase it to me, though, because the words are not so much a logical claim as a way of pointing at the experience of realizing that my sense of a separate self is an ontological illusion and then knowing that “me” and “you” and “it” are not really separate things because of the interconnectedness of reality.
But I can imagine not experiencing universal love for all beings because I didn’t used to, or at least not in the same way. Like, if I think about it, I don’t know if I could have endorsed the statement “their life story is also mine and mine is theirs” prior to having some insights during meditation.
I can imagine there’s more nuance to it than how I experience universal love now. I don’t know what this looks like, but there being more nuance would fit the general pattern of most meditation insights: you get part of the picture and then there’s still more that will change how you think about things but not invalidate the current experience, although it might show that it was missing important things.