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An ebook by Daniel Ingram was found floating around, which offered a conception of enlightenment that suggested it was about shifting identity rather than rooting out negative emotions, resonating with Vince Horn at the time.
But I did find a young teacher named Daniel Ingram. I found an ebook that was floating around and I actually met one of his ex-Roomates, College Roomates, while I was at NC State.
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An ebook by Daniel Ingram was found floating around, which offered a conception of enlightenment that suggested it was about shifting identity rather than rooting out negative emotions, resonating with Vince Horn at the time.
But I did find a young teacher named Daniel Ingram. I found an ebook that was floating around and I actually met one of his ex-Roomates, College Roomates, while I was at NC State.
And he had a different conception which is enlightenment isn't necessarily about uprooting all these things. It is about totally shifting your sense of identity and the experience of a reference point like of who you think you are and that it was possible to have a full experience of that changing and even dissolving totally.
He wrote a book about how to do it, kind of a cookbook as he describes it.
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The guest wrote this book to help people navigate their path to enlightenment, insisting that the goal is attainable for everyone. The speaker initially found the cover of the self-published version to be over the top and provocative but later realized the author was very smart after reading it.
In fact had written a whole book called mastering the core teachings of the Buddha about how he was in our hunt and how you could become one too.
So I actually went and read this book after the retreat was like the first thing I did after I got out of retreat and at first I was like this is a little insane just but based on the cover it was actually a PDF that he you could print out for free.