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	Podcast:		Upaya Zen Center
	Episode:		John Dunne: Unsaying, Not Knowing, and Pointing at the Moon: Language and Non-dual Practice (Part 3 of 8)
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		01:14:21
	Publish Date:		2018-03-24 18:00:23
	Description:		Episode Description: “Conceptuality and therefore language is ignorance,” John Dunne says, in quoting the 7th century Indian philosopher Dharmakirti’s discourses. In untangling and deconstructing the arguments of why, Dunne says, “we think categories exist in the world somehow, that we’re not producing them… When I say ‘cup’ or ‘apple’ to you, you get an image in your consciousness, and in some sense you think of that image as actually being an apple.” He says, “we already have the capacity right away to see through the ways in which our own thoughts about the world can control us… We can train that capacity, it’s a technique in meditation practice.” *To help keep these podcasts freely available, we hope you will consider making a suggested donation of $25 to our* Dharma Podcast Fund. Donate $25 Here John Dunne, PhD John Dunne (PhD 1999, Harvard University) is now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he holds the Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities, a newly endowed position created... More
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