Two Truths: Exploration of Psychedelics and Buddhism with Kokyo Henkel
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I enjoyed this interview from the trauma, psychedelics and Buddhism podcast for many reasons - the way Kokyo seamlessly shares his experience with psychedelics as well as Buddhism - how psychedelics supported awakening beyond time and form. And I love the pointing at the end - to the two truths - relative and absolute - and that there is no separation ultimately between them. although they may appear separate, they never were separate and never are separate.
Sensing the distinction between what comes and goes (relative Truth) and what doesn’t come and go (Absolute Truth) is necessary and supports the end of suffering. For me this experience ended the world as I knew it along with suffering as I knew it, Realizing that nothing is real, it is all illusion, form has no substance, there is ultimately no separate self called “me”, a tight fist seeking peace and fulfillment through relative truth opened up, dissolved., and never reappeared again in the same way. And yet, this Was not the end, this was the beginning. Then the invitation became one of integration and deepening - experiencing the absolute in the relative, Knowing deeply that what comes and goes is made of what doesn’t come and go. The fist can appear, even tighten, but without suffering. Fully embodied, fully free.
Now the two truths are realized as never separate. Yes, nothing means anything, and there is nothing to mean anything, and why not tend to relative appearance curiously and compassionately as it appears? Enjoying this dance of absolute appearing as relative and relative shing as absolute.
I am curious what you have discovered in this.
Two truths: Two Truths | Lion’s Roar
When we enter the path, we are working at the level of relative truth, and with practice we may gain insight into the absolute. But we don’t enter the final stage of practice, says Tsoknyi Rinpoche, until we realize these truths were never separate.