As the feeling of fear and separateness lingers, I
think of all Westerners who claim to have met with the Eternal (as I will call
it for now). It is recognized as the
numinous, Nirvana, satori, the Now, Sanctum, and Other. Outside of living in a culture that
under-girds these experiences (if you will), I find it difficult to believe
anyone in the West (without exception) has reached satori or Nirvana. It seems unlikely that anyone as well has
seen the face of a god as devised in the words of some. The inescapable
loneliness, separation, difference, Lack of the Other.
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