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Modern Technology Presents Our Best Chance for Mass Enlightenment

Make the most of it.

Rami Dhanoa
Change Your Mind Change Your Life
5 min readOct 19, 2024

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I was once in the middle of a ten-day silent meditation retreat, deep in the Canadian wilderness. Six days in with no phone; no method to return to the outside world. No one to talk to except my teacher.

All I had was hour after hour of settling the mind in meditation.

Yet there I was, looking out the window, getting excited and distracted about nothing at all. Snowfall here, pebbles there — no ‘stimulation’.

But the mind darted around, grasping & clinging to anything & everything. There was no Zuckerburg engineering my delusions here. No UX design team dedicated to keeping my attention hooked.

I was experiencing what Buddhist texts call ‘connate mental afflictions’ — tendencies of fragmentation, forgetting, sinking, & getting carried away.

Although born with them, we can purify them, and in doing so, attain true wisdom.

That’s when I realized our current paradigm around mental development needed to be demolished.

For starters, let’s trash the binaries.

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