Abhiññā, Mystical Experience & What Is Not Liberation
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Summary
The speaker spent a serious period in the world of energy work, crystals, chakras and New Age practice, especially while studying in America.
What he came to notice was that these things did make him feel better for a while, and did quiet the mind at times.
What they did not answer was the question of how to get out of suffering when suffering actually arrives.
Key points
He does not claim it had no effect
He grants that it did make him feel better, which gives the criticism more weight than dismissal would.
The criterion is the end of suffering
The question is not what is true but what actually leads out.
Temporary calm and removing a cause are different
Something that makes you feel better need not touch the cause at all.
He speaks from inside it
This is not an outsider’s critique, which is why it is worth hearing.