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Reality Transurfing says you choose reality

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Buddhism says there is no chooser

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A Russian man wrote a book

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telling you something shocking you don't need to create reality

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reality has already been created

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infinite versions exist all at once

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the only thing you need to do

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is pick one and walk into it

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this book's Chinese title is Si Yi Li

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its English name is Reality Transurfing

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the author is Zeland

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in spiritual circles around the world

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its popularity is second only to The Power of Now and manifestation teachings

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many readers even consider it more advanced than those

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because it isn't as naive as the law of attraction

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it doesn't have you make a wish and wait for the universe to deliver a package

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nor like manifestation which only talks about switching inner states

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it builds a complete theoretical framework

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there's the space of variations and the pendulum

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there's inner intention and outer intention and the law of importance

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the whole system looks perfectly seamless

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logically self consistent

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but today I'm going to take a Buddhist scalpel

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and cut this framework open layer by layer

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not to dismiss it

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the parts it gets right are genuinely brilliant

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but to help you see clearly

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where this path stops

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and the very place where it stops

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is exactly where Buddhism truly begins

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hello

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everyone

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I'm Wang Lijie

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let me quickly draw a map for those who haven't read the book

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Zeland's theory has four pillars

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the first is called the space of variations

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he says

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everything that could possibly happen

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already exists all at once in an infinite dimensional field of information

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imagine a giant supermarket

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the shelves hold endless versions of your life a version where you get rich

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a version where you're broke and destitute

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a version where you meet true love

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a version where you grow old alone

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these versions don't need to be created

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they're already there

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what you do isn't to make a new reality

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but to slide over to the shelf you want

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the second is called the pendulum

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this is the most insightful concept in the whole book

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Zeland says

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society is full of energy information structures

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he calls them pendulums

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a company is a pendulum

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an ideology is a pendulum

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an emotional storm on social media is also a pendulum

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what keeps a pendulum alive

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your attention and emotional energy

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it doesn't care whether you support it or oppose it the more fiercely you resist

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the more energy you give it

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what the pendulum wants isn't your agreement

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it's your engagement

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the third is called lowering importance

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Zeland says

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the greater the resistance between you and it

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the thing you desperately want

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is exactly what drifts further and further away

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because importance creates excess potential

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this potential triggers balancing forces that push back against you

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so his advice is want something

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but don't treat it as important

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the fourth is called outer intention

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this is what Zeland sees as the ultimate weapon

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he distinguishes two kinds of intention

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inner intention is I will go do this thing

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it's you actively pushing the world

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outer intention is this thing will happen on its own

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it's you aligning your state with the version of reality you want

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and then the world adjusts itself to match you

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you don't go and take it

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it comes to you

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that's all four pillars

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pretty elegant right

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it really is elegant

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the first time I encountered this theory

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there were several moments when I genuinely felt

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this man had touched something real

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but at the same time I found several huge cracks

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and these cracks

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are exactly the ones Buddhism marked out twenty five hundred years ago

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let's take them apart one by one

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first the space of variations

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Zeland says infinite versions of reality exist at once

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you don't need to create

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you only need to choose

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this picture is strikingly similar in structure to the seed theory of Yogacara

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what is the alaya consciousness

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it's a vast storehouse holding countless seeds

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containing every possibility

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good ones bad ones ones tied to wealth

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really are all already there

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the two systems overlap at the level of description

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but the fork is coming right up

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Zeland says

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you can choose to slide to any version you want

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Buddhism asks hold on

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who is choosing

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in the Yogacara framework

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seeds are not chosen by you

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what kind of reality you experience

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depends on what seeds you planted in the past

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and what conditions in the present activate them

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in this process there is no independent chooser

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strolling through the supermarket pushing a cart

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you think you're choosing

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but really the seeds are arranging themselves by their own logic

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here's an analogy

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have you ever had this experience you open a food delivery app

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and end up ordering from the same few places

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you think you're choosing freely

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but your fingers were long ago locked in by past taste memories

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the options you see are infinite

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but your attention

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only lands on the few spots the seeds already marked

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Zeland says you can slide to any shelf

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but he didn't tell you your cart has autopilot

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and that navigation program

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is the sum of all your past choices

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in my earlier episode on manifestation I made a core point

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you can't manifest something you have no seed for

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Zeland's space of variations is one step more precise than manifestation

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he doesn't say create

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he says choose

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but the essence of the problem hasn't changed

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your choice is still determined by your existing seed patterns

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you think you're heading toward a brand new version of reality

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but really the inertia of old seeds pushed you to a place that looks new

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yet is structurally identical

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like someone who keeps changing jobs cities and partners

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each time thinking this time it's different

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but each time falling into the same pattern

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not because he chose wrong

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but because he was choosing with the same seed bank just switching shelves

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the cart still holds the same things

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now let's look at the pendulum

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this concept

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I have to give Zeland real credit

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his description of the pendulum

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that society contains collective structures feeding on individual energy

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has a very precise counterpart in Buddhism

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called collective karma

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a company's culture a nation's collective consciousness

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are all expressions of collective karma

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are largely not yours

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but the arising of collective karmic seeds activated by shared conditions

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Zeland is right the pendulum doesn't care whether you support or oppose it

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it only cares that you give it energy

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Buddhism's formulation is more precise

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grasping and aversion are two sides of the same coin

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what actually makes a pendulum lose its grip on you

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but not grasping at appearances you see it

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but your mind doesn't stick to it

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it's not pretending you can't see it

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it's truly seeing how it operates

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so its hooks can't catch you anymore

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but here Zeland makes a subtle mistake

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he teaches you not to give the pendulum energy

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and the method is to not treat it as important

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it sounds a lot like the Buddhist not grasping at appearances

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but the direction of operation is completely reversed

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he does it to better achieve the result you want

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that he teaches you to let go of the pendulum

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his not caring is a strategy

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a means letting go of this to grab that

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Buddhism's not grasping at appearances is not a strategy

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it's a letting go that happens naturally after you see the true nature of appearances

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it's not letting go in order to gain freedom

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it's seeing the truth

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and letting go happens automatically

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one uses letting go as a tool

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the other is where letting go itself is the destination

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but the consequences are worlds apart

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the person who uses letting go as a tool

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why hasn't the result come yet

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he's using non attachment to be attached

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but the person who truly sees through it

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won't even have the thought I am letting go arise

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just as you wouldn't while walking

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it's no longer an action

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lowering importance

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Zeland says the more you care about something

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the observation itself is fine

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I've discussed similar phenomena from different angles in several earlier videos

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but he explains this phenomenon as balancing forces

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saying the universe has a force that automatically counters your importance

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from Buddhism's view this explanation

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mistakes the effect for the cause

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it's not some mysterious balancing force fighting you

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it's your own conscious structure creating the resistance

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this rigidity itself is the source of the resistance

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it's not the universe pushing you

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the harder you squeeze

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not because some balancing force is helping the fish escape

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it's your own force that creates the fish's escape

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force and resistance arise together

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they're two sides of one thing

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Zeland saw this phenomenon

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but he mistook your own grip

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for some external law of the universe

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is structurally identical to what I analyzed in the manifestation episode

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you can't pretend not to care in order to get a result

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because the very act of pretending not to care

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proves that you care very much

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you're using the new label not caring

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to wrap the old emotion of caring deeply

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the manas is very shrewd

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you can't even fool it

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finally let's look at outer intention

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Zeland says inner intention is you actively pushing the world

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outer intention is letting the world come to match you

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without exerting force

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yet things happen on their own

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Laozi said doing nothing yet leaving nothing undone doesn't mean doing nothing

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it's having no attachment to a me who acts

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Buddhism's emptiness of the three spheres

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when you act there's no attachment to a doer

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no attachment to a deed being done

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no attachment to the process of doing it

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these descriptions look extremely similar on the surface to Zeland's outer intention

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but the deepest crack is right here

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in Zeland's outer intention

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the operating subject is still the self

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it's the self that decides what to want

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it's the self that tunes its own frequency

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it's the self that aligns with the target reality

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then the self waits for the world to come and match the self

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the self never leaves the stage

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it just moves from the front of the stage to the director's chair

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but it's always present

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always running the show

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the state Buddhism points to

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is not the self retreating backstage

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it's the self being seen through it was never an entity

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but a functional illusion fabricated by the manas

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when you truly see how the self is constructed

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it's not that the self got smarter

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it's that the story of the self loses its persuasiveness

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have you seen those stereograms a mess of color blocks

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you stare and suddenly a three dimensional image pops out

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before it pops out

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you can't see it no matter what

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after it pops out

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you can never pretend not to see it again

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what Buddhism calls seeing your true nature is this kind of experience

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it's not that you learned some new skill

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it's that an ever present truth suddenly becomes impossible to ignore

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and Zeland's framework

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amounts to teaching you how to paint a finer two dimensional picture

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but he doesn't guide your eyes to discover the leap into three dimensions

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Zeland says

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outer intention is you don't exert force yet the world matches you

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Buddhism says

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it's not that the world matches you

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it's that after you the middleman disappears

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causes and conditions flow naturally

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and what should happen happens

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it's not that you're surfing

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the wave and the surfer were always the same ocean

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back to the original question

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is Reality Transurfing worth reading

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yes

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its pendulum concept is invaluable for understanding how collective consciousness sweeps you along

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it's far more precise than manifestation

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at least it no longer naively says whatever you think comes true

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its distinction between inner intention and outer intention

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has touched the edge of some real structure

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but its whole framework still rests on one fundamental premise

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that the self can somehow choose a better reality

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Buddhism would say

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the very concept of a better reality is imaginary attachment

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the act of choosing itself presupposes a chooser

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and that chooser

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is exactly what keeps you jumping between different versions of reality

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yet never escaping the same pattern

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Zeland gave you a map of an infinite supermarket

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teaching you how to find the best shelf

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Buddhism tells you something more fundamental you are not the customer

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you are the supermarket itself

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when you stop being busy choosing

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you'll find

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everything you need was already within your own nature

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it's not that you own it by choosing right

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it's that you never lost it

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this is where Reality Transurfing's elegant detour ends

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it goes further than most spiritual books

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but at the final step it doesn't break through

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it stands before the paper window

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and paints a very beautiful picture

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describing the scenery on the other side

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but it never pokes through the paper

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and Buddhism says stop painting

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reach your finger over and poke it

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the paper tears

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and you're there

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if you ask me what that paper is

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three words I am choosing

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once you see through the self

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you don't need to choose any reality

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because every present moment

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is already complete

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what do you think

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is there any concept in Reality Transurfing

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that you feel Buddhism hasn't fully explained

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let me know in the comments

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I'm Wang Lijie

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see you next time