Here is a detailed analysis of what is wrong with these and related perspectives… They both contradict the fundamental premise of this book, namely that there is something amazing to attain and understand and that there are specific, reproducible methods that can help you do that. The Nothing To Do School and the You Are Already There School are both basically vile extremes on the same basic notion that all effort to attain to mastery is already missing the point, an error of craving and grasping. ![]() ![]() I feel the need to address, which is to say shoot down with every bit of rhetorical force I have, the notion promoted by some teachers and even traditions that there is nothing to do, nothing to accomplish, no goal to obtain, no enlightenment other than the ordinary state of being…which, if it were true, would have been very nice of them, except that it is complete bullshit. The result is a sort of perfect antidote to the vague hippie-ism you get from a lot of spirituality. And if you’ve ever had an attending quiz you on the difference between type 1 and type 2 second-degree heart block, you’ll love Ingram’s taxonomy of the stages of enlightenment. ER docs are famous for being practical, working fast, and thinking everyone else is an idiot. ![]() His book is called Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha, but he could also have called it Buddhism For ER Docs. The demands of a medical career are incompatible with such a time-consuming practice.Įnter Daniel Ingram MD, an emergency physician who claims to have achieved enlightenment just after graduating medical school. And (I thought) I had an unimpeachable excuse. I always wanted to meditate more, but never really got around to it.
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