awakening is more valuable than ~all kinds of material wealth
This general sort of claim has never made sense to me. Is there an accessible to outsiders attempt to justify it in a way not obviously contradictory with the materialist scientific understanding of the world? In particular, I’m confused about why we would evolve with a capacity for extremely valuable “awakening”, when presumably not a single of our distant enough ancestors had ever “awoke”, and very few contemporaries ostensibly do.
This general sort of claim has never made sense to me. Is there an accessible to outsiders attempt to justify it in a way not obviously contradictory with the materialist scientific understanding of the world? In particular, I’m confused about why we would evolve with a capacity for extremely valuable “awakening”, when presumably not a single of our distant enough ancestors had ever “awoke”, and very few contemporaries ostensibly do.