Seems to be many people arguing back and forth about whether the widow's tears are genuine ... I happen to find it more interesting to wonder if the widow even asked for an autopsy. Do we know if she did? If she did, what then happened? If she didn't, why didn't she? Nothing to see here, we will now resume your normal programming. Thanks for your attention.
Great work here Chris, thanks! The first book I ever read that made me aware of a) My monkey mind b) My breath, was Jon-Kabot Zinn's Wherever You Go There You Are. That's step 1 in the crawl-walk-run scenario towards mastery in my estimation. I wish that was required reading in school for me when I was about 13 years old. In terms of believing, Richard Feynman has been a big influence on me for several decades. Like him, I am not 100% convinced of anything I am conscious of and I hold varying degrees of certainty about all of it. Science meets mysticism here and the book the Tao of Physics sealed that understanding for me. The only 100% truth seems to be the non-judgmental being I was as a child before my consciousness began acting on everything all the time. I can connect with that being periodically, but only when I meet my breath.
Non-dualism and subject vs. object explained very well. Thanks Chris, this fits nicely into a personal framework that I developed for myself several years ago.