What Good is Thinking

Kinfonet Discussion
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This makes the notion of enlightenment even more seductive.

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Any brain that has a partial insight knows enlightenment is real because that brain can no longer pretend to know what it does not know. Insight enables the brain to be aware of its dishonesty.

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Or its distractedness. Or its conditioned state. Or its naïveté. Or just plain wore out.

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You think we here are all partial-insight-less?

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I don’t know how many of us here have had partial insights, but we know that human brains have partial insights, and that every partial insight is partially transformative.

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Every event is transformative. We are what we experience. Is there anything that is free from the effects of experience?

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Does a caterpillar learn how to be a butterfly?

We are what we experience

And we experience what we think we’re experiencing,

Is there anything that is free from the effects of experience?

Is partial insight an experience, or illumination that reveals what experience is?