Your comment falsely assumes I don&#x27;t know Buddhism. Buddhist &#x27;ontology&#x27; doesn&#x27;t form a legitimate basis for talking about meditation in a scientific&#x2F; technical manner, or even in a philosophically coherent manner. It simply doesn&#x27;t. I get that in the West it&#x27;s primarily a utility for making people feel happy and centered, which is overall a good thing, but it&#x27;s a little hypocritical of HN to dismiss someone like Eckhart Tolle or Chopra while enthusiastically &#x27;analyzing&#x27; our cognitive reality from the standpoint of Western Buddhism... they aren&#x27;t at different levels.