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First there was a mountain

Name: First there was a mountain
Uploaded: 2026-10-10
Channel: Scott Kalin
Description: So what happens is in the awakening, the first awakening, it is, I am not the mind, right? Scott Kalin, The Form of Emptiness.

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So what happens is in the awakening, the first awakening, it is, I am not the mind, right? And then the second awakening is, I am the mind. This seems very counterintuitive, but that's how it goes. So that's a famous, I think it's Zen Koan, and it's something like, first there was a mountain, then there was no mountain, then there was a mountain again.

So that is a simplified way of describing the pattern of awakening that occurs on each level of awakening.