Dan Harris

Rachel doesn't have a soul, though, from this, you know, sort of high-powered microscope perspective.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, but I mean, we're all just living in this weird social contract where we've just decided to agree that we all exist.

And just by deciding, we make it thus.

Yes, and I think actually this is where this construct that I'm proposing to you via the Buddha starts to become practical because, yes, we do live in a consensual reality or what the Buddhists call relative reality.

truth, as opposed to the ultimate truth, which is back to the spinning subatomic particles.

And these two levels of reality speak to each other.

So the next time you're stuck in some story about how Rachel's this way, she's not this way, life is going this way or that way, you can switch into the ultimate

perspective for a second.

Okay.

No, no, no.

On some level, this is all an illusion.

This is all like in a movie, a play of light and sound projected on a screen.

There isn't

There isn't solidity.

It's just 24 frames per second.

And then for people who tend to drift off into that kind of nihilistic space of, oh, none of it matters.

No, no, no.

It does matter.

Both things are true at the same time.