Lots of personality traits seem to stick around. If he’s weirdly nihilistic after awakening the simplest explanation is that he was weirdly nihilistic before awakening and it just altered the flavor slightly.
But how can we do anything until that most fundamental of all questions is answered?
Meaning is backwards facing, temporally. You don’t say you need to understand the meaning of a movie before you watch it. More broadly, I don’t trust meditation teachers that don’t do stack traces of mental processes, since they’re exactly the people who are supposed to be good at that.
Lots of personality traits seem to stick around. If he’s weirdly nihilistic after awakening the simplest explanation is that he was weirdly nihilistic before awakening and it just altered the flavor slightly.
Meaning is backwards facing, temporally. You don’t say you need to understand the meaning of a movie before you watch it. More broadly, I don’t trust meditation teachers that don’t do stack traces of mental processes, since they’re exactly the people who are supposed to be good at that.