Hey this is Leo for actualized.org and in this episode I'm going to be talking about

becoming a Zen devil the dangers of half-assing enlightenment. If you cannot weep with a person who is crying, there is no kenscho.

A quote by Yamada Kowl.

For a while now, I've wanted to address this problem and the dangers that I see with Neo Advita.

Neo Advita.

What is this exactly?

Well, it's this tendency in the West,

especially,

especially in modern times to basically say okay we've got this thing called

non-duality great so let's take a look at all these different traditions we've

got Christian non-duality, Islamic

non-duality, the Buddhist non-duality, Hindu non-duality. That's what a new ad-vita is. I mean, regular

invited is, is just basically a school of Indian non-duality.

So what happens is that people see that and they say, well, there's all this bad stuff with religion there's all this

kind of traditional ritualistic stuff all these beliefs and dogmas so you know

we're very advanced here in the West so what we're going to do in our infinite wisdom

is we're going to take the techniques and strip all the spiritual traditions of

any adornments or any belief systems and just take the techniques.

So we'll take, for example, Advitavidanta, we'll strip it of all its cultural baggage,

we'll bring it to the West, and now we'll just teach a very direct method for

Enlightenment and what could possibly go wrong with that? This is a tendency that we see here in the West in America and in Europe.

And generally speaking, I'm kind of of two opinions about this trend.

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