And as for nondualism...

Continuing from this post on the WC lattice, my last comments refer to what I describe as nondualism. It is not a state but that combination of state training proficiency with a postformal, postmetaphysical view. So much on traditional nondualism is in fact a dual nondualism, as I've criticized in this thread (and its predecessor) and elsewhere. The closest traditional view to a postmetaphysical nondualism is Tsongkhapa's Prasangika as expressed in contemporary Gelug Tibetan Buddhism, but even it still contains metaphysical remnants when it comes to nonconceptual awareness. This also has to do with how one conceptualizes the infamous term emptiness, and the emptiness of emptiness doctrine, as well as the two truths debate, all covered in the linked thread. And perhaps most ironic of all, very much akin to Bryant's kind of nihilism, wherein lurks this very sort of nondual spirituality. Now if he just took up state training...