The trouble is that a lot of people don't get there. We are often so attached to our frame, game, or raft that it becomes a substitute for objective truth, because it is all we have! Inside such entrapment, most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are. In my experience, this is most of the world, unless people have done their inner work, or least some shadow work, and thereby entered into wisdom or nondualistic thinking. Through centuries of meticulous and utterly honest self-observation, Buddhism has helped people see this in themselves probably better than
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