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Varela 2026: Reflexive Awareness and Encountering Reality (Part 2)
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In Part 2 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, John Dunne, PhD, opens with a guided meditation on reflexive, non-dual awareness before turning to a central question of Buddhist epistemology: what is real? Testing the room with a white mug — is its color in the object, the brain, or somewhere else? — he distinguishes a transparent mode of perception, which sees through experience to act in…