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and From a Western perspective, you're quite right. And that's also the point: it's not content we're missing, it's epistemic integration. And typically what we find is that perceptual refusal can't be argued down. Our blindness and exceptionalism go together. It goes both ways, of course, but a vast spectrum of Occidental contention resolves itself in reconciliation or, indeed, dissolution, when considered within the epistemic bounds of Eastern and/or indigenous experience. Why fight a battle already decided elsewhere, millennia ago? SophiaCycles It is nearly seven hundred years since Meister Eckhart exclaimed: “It is all inside, not outside, for everything is inside.” But how few people have realized as yet what he meant.~Barbara Hannah, The Animus Subtweet: David Richo: "Everything we take to be an ‘it’ - outside us and coming at us - is actually an ‘I’ - part of us." Jack Kornfield: "What the Buddha found out was that our life is the life of everything else. Final integration is a state of transcultural maturity far beyond mere social adjustment, which always implies partiality and compromise. The man who is “fully born” has an entirely “inner experience of life.” He apprehends his life fully and wholly from an inner ground that is at once more universal than the empirical ego and yet entirely his own. He is in a certain sense “cosmic” and “universal Man.” He is in a certain sense identified with everybody: or in the familiar language of the New Testament … he is “all things to all men.” He has attained to a deep inner freedom - the Freedom of the Spirit we read of in the New Testament. He is guided not just by will and reason, but by: “spontaneous behavior subject to dynamic Insight.” - Thomas Merton