The fact that you recognize you have unresolved stuff that drains energy is actually evidence in favor of you having what Val is pointing at. It’s much better than being completely unaware of it or believing that it’s just how the world is.
I’m not trained in a Buddhist tradition but have gathered my experiences about elsewhere. I have a lot of mental model for various related phenomena.
I have had a meditation experience after which I thought: “I think I have experienced the phenomenological basis on which karma is build.” but I never had a proper Buddhistic teacher. Getting your mind “clean” is an essential part of the Buddhist way and my mind is at the moment anything but “clean”.
Take the mental state of presence that Buddhist monks who have meditated very long have where they don’t have the startle response (besides the Buddhist monks psychopaths also often don’t have the startle response). You need a certain level of mental cleanness for that, that I don’t have. Given what I knew about Val before his development before his enlightment experience, I think it’s plausible that Val has this.
From my perspective it’s plausible that this is part of what Val means with Kenshō.
While we are talking about this. There’s a concept of the “distinction of completion” that I think comes from the Landmark Forum. If anybody here was at the Landmark Forum and can talk in their language I would be very interested in talking.
The fact that you recognize you have unresolved stuff that drains energy is actually evidence in favor of you having what Val is pointing at. It’s much better than being completely unaware of it or believing that it’s just how the world is.
I’m not trained in a Buddhist tradition but have gathered my experiences about elsewhere. I have a lot of mental model for various related phenomena.
I have had a meditation experience after which I thought: “I think I have experienced the phenomenological basis on which karma is build.” but I never had a proper Buddhistic teacher. Getting your mind “clean” is an essential part of the Buddhist way and my mind is at the moment anything but “clean”.
Take the mental state of presence that Buddhist monks who have meditated very long have where they don’t have the startle response (besides the Buddhist monks psychopaths also often don’t have the startle response). You need a certain level of mental cleanness for that, that I don’t have. Given what I knew about Val before his development before his enlightment experience, I think it’s plausible that Val has this.
From my perspective it’s plausible that this is part of what Val means with Kenshō.
While we are talking about this. There’s a concept of the “distinction of completion” that I think comes from the Landmark Forum. If anybody here was at the Landmark Forum and can talk in their language I would be very interested in talking.