One of the clearest examples of cofnitivr fusion is language processing. When someone’s speaking to you, try to listen to the sounds they’re making without translating them into words—it’s impossible. Visual processing is similar—try looking around without instantly classifying what you see into objects like chair, window, pillow, etc. In my peak clarity, I’m amazed at how bizarre my own hands are and how I can control them with my thought.
The extrapolation of this is every conscious experience is passing through layers of programming, and you don’t ever experience the “root reality”. Buddha’s breakthrough is that the root causes of suffering—aversions and attachments—are also just programming. And if you develop enough focus (through meditation or even drugs, and the 8 fold path), you’d see them for what they are, and they’d dissolve.
As they said in the Matrix, the secret to bending the spoon is realizing there is no spoon.
One of the clearest examples of cofnitivr fusion is language processing. When someone’s speaking to you, try to listen to the sounds they’re making without translating them into words—it’s impossible. Visual processing is similar—try looking around without instantly classifying what you see into objects like chair, window, pillow, etc. In my peak clarity, I’m amazed at how bizarre my own hands are and how I can control them with my thought.
The extrapolation of this is every conscious experience is passing through layers of programming, and you don’t ever experience the “root reality”. Buddha’s breakthrough is that the root causes of suffering—aversions and attachments—are also just programming. And if you develop enough focus (through meditation or even drugs, and the 8 fold path), you’d see them for what they are, and they’d dissolve.
As they said in the Matrix, the secret to bending the spoon is realizing there is no spoon.