The Ability to Tell the Difference
"The success of Homo sapiens as a species is built on our inability to tell the difference between a fiction and a reality."
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Changing the Plane of Focus
"Many longtime meditators seem completely unaware that these two planes of focus exist, and they spend their lives looking out the window, as it were."
~ Sam Harris
Direct Contact
"For most people the senses are opaque. A window is opaque if it is covered by soot; light can't come through. The soot is craving, aversion, and ignorance. When that's cleared away, the ordinary senses become literally transparent. It is very hard to describe what this is like."
~ Shinzen Young