"whole world's enlightened but you" doesn't work well and is least truthful. At best it's "whole world's enlightened, including you, and it's all seeking the truth" is most truthful of the two. Otherwise, it's just "seek to be most deeply honest with one's inner and outer experience." Edit: I'll be frank, it's a crap teaching without judicious, wise clarification. 1) It contradicts dharma, 2) is untrue, and 3) can be toxic to many practitioners. 1) Dependent origination observes that every phenomenal occurrence arises from causes and conditions. That includes "the world" and "oneself", the "person." If one's unenlightened then both are and the other way around. The "person" is a product of "the world." It contradicts the non self principle. I.e. nothing, "self" or "world" has an independent "self". In fact, they exist mutually and in communion, even making one another. Finally, it contradicts the whole lived truth of the Dharma that there's no separateness. The whole purpose of Dharma is seeing/being non-separation directly (not intellectually). Seeing "you" as being "unenlightened" and "the world" being so keeps that separation in place. 2) see #1. 3) This teaching can be toxic to practitioners who have significant psych-emotional traumatic backgrounds, especially childhood trauma and other trauma with power-over factors like rape and other abuse. It basically says "you're wrong, those who've harmed you or who do harm you are right." Deeply abused as a kid? You're wrong, the abuses were right. Your village or country bombed and shelled in an unprovoked invasion, murdering thousands including your family? You're wrong, invaders right. Lost your family in the Holocaust? You're wrong. Face discrimination? You're wrong. It's a horrible teaching. At best, it could be used in 1 on 1 instruction like those fake koans whose purpose is for the practitioner to realize the teaching's assumptions are false and the truth is much deeper. At worst... it can be like so many other religious and spiritual misdirection that cover up and excuse destructive, harmful behavior of leaders, institutions and teachers, putting everything on the practitioner rather than respectful sharing of responsibility. Also, see #3 Kornfield is usually pretty decent as a teacher but even the best teachers miss a swing from time to time. This one's a strikeout. As a certain Indian saint asked "How is a teaching that assumes limitation supposed to deliver one from such limitation?" It can't. It only reinforces the limitation (and separation).
It's meant to be an exercise he mentioned, so if you identify with the concept 'everyone and everything is enlightened but me' you'll listen and learn from the world around you in a much more conscious and respectful way
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This was so timely - I needed this talk so much.
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Thank you, Jack! I always learning from you. Jeff
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My early habits for egos survival are falling away with acceptance of Nows bounty aka heart mind?
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"whole world's enlightened but you" doesn't work well and is least truthful. At best it's "whole world's enlightened, including you, and it's all seeking the truth" is most truthful of the two. Otherwise, it's just "seek to be most deeply honest with one's inner and outer experience."
Edit: I'll be frank, it's a crap teaching without judicious, wise clarification. 1) It contradicts dharma, 2) is untrue, and 3) can be toxic to many practitioners.
1) Dependent origination observes that every phenomenal occurrence arises from causes and conditions. That includes "the world" and "oneself", the "person." If one's unenlightened then both are and the other way around. The "person" is a product of "the world." It contradicts the non self principle. I.e. nothing, "self" or "world" has an independent "self". In fact, they exist mutually and in communion, even making one another. Finally, it contradicts the whole lived truth of the Dharma that there's no separateness. The whole purpose of Dharma is seeing/being non-separation directly (not intellectually). Seeing "you" as being "unenlightened" and "the world" being so keeps that separation in place.
2) see #1.
3) This teaching can be toxic to practitioners who have significant psych-emotional traumatic backgrounds, especially childhood trauma and other trauma with power-over factors like rape and other abuse. It basically says "you're wrong, those who've harmed you or who do harm you are right." Deeply abused as a kid? You're wrong, the abuses were right. Your village or country bombed and shelled in an unprovoked invasion, murdering thousands including your family? You're wrong, invaders right. Lost your family in the Holocaust? You're wrong. Face discrimination? You're wrong.
It's a horrible teaching. At best, it could be used in 1 on 1 instruction like those fake koans whose purpose is for the practitioner to realize the teaching's assumptions are false and the truth is much deeper. At worst... it can be like so many other religious and spiritual misdirection that cover up and excuse destructive, harmful behavior of leaders, institutions and teachers, putting everything on the practitioner rather than respectful sharing of responsibility. Also, see #3
Kornfield is usually pretty decent as a teacher but even the best teachers miss a swing from time to time. This one's a strikeout.
As a certain Indian saint asked "How is a teaching that assumes limitation supposed to deliver one from such limitation?" It can't. It only reinforces the limitation (and separation).
Idk it seems pretty good to me. The point is to take other people's interactions with you as teachings, as he said before, life is a test.
It's meant to be an exercise he mentioned, so if you identify with the concept 'everyone and everything is enlightened but me' you'll listen and learn from the world around you in a much more conscious and respectful way
Matter of interpretation and perspective like one said in an earlier comment. I understand it from a student or devotee perspective