Gary Weber on Robert Wright's Blogging Heads TV

Thanks for posting this interview. I'm listening to it now. I've heard other recorded talks with Gary Weber. before this, however, I didn't know that Robert Wright was into mediation and Buddhism.

I am still so unsure of how I feel about Gary Weber. He obviously has some very true realization but, he also seems to think his way is the only way, which in turn is the opposite of how most awakened people I know feel. Maybe I am just reading him the wrong way. Ehh.

I'd suggest that that what you practice may (surely does) contribute to what you end up with, but what you practice depends on your personality, life experience, your values, needs, priorities, "who you are" and so on, so fundamentally what "you end up with" is very much tied back to that. I think the distinction is important because it reflects this diversity of awakeness that we encounter as being rooted in our diversity as individual people, rather than as people who did/didn't do the right practice and therefore ended up with a shitter/superior awakening.

I find I do have more trouble "getting" some people's expressions of awakeness than others, but there's always people you don't "get," awakeness aside.

It's often really hard not to move from "not getting" to "something's wrong with them." Guilty of feeling this on occasion. But it's often undermined by being able to have private conversation with people. That clip of Kenneth, for example, is just a bizarre way to talk about awakening (for me). But I've had personal discussion with Kenneth about my practice in which I felt like we were totally on the same page and I really respect the guy's teaching. Bringing it back to Gary, I don't generally "get" his style or the things he emphasizes, but a private conversation might be a whole different thing.

Anyway. Thirty cents.

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