U listened to that RevLeft Radio episode re:Buddhism and enlightenment? It’s pretty recent, and pretty cool. It’s like lol yeah, this thing I call “I”, this “self” is a delusion of ego/mind, thinking it’s hot tits and the most important thing in the universe. Like, bro, forget yourself, and remember that you are the universe!
You should watch Let's Talk Religion on YouTube. Religious scholar focused on Islam, particularly mysticism and Sufism. There's a shocking amount of overlap with this sort of thinking in Western mysticism. A few good videos from him on this type of thinking:
It turns out, people in many different traditions have come to the conclusion that there is no distinction between the self, the universe, and God, or at least something philosophically similar.
U listened to that RevLeft Radio episode re:Buddhism and enlightenment? It’s pretty recent, and pretty cool. It’s like lol yeah, this thing I call “I”, this “self” is a delusion of ego/mind, thinking it’s hot tits and the most important thing in the universe. Like, bro, forget yourself, and remember that you are the universe!
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You should watch Let's Talk Religion on YouTube. Religious scholar focused on Islam, particularly mysticism and Sufism. There's a shocking amount of overlap with this sort of thinking in Western mysticism. A few good videos from him on this type of thinking:
Ibn Sab'in and Radical Unity
Meister Eckhart and Christian Mysticism
It turns out, people in many different traditions have come to the conclusion that there is no distinction between the self, the universe, and God, or at least something philosophically similar.
Hell yeah