Is that true or is it?

Yeah, that is partially true that the Meiji period, this is like in the 1800s, the government was trying to kind of promote Shintoism as the national native religion.

And Buddhism was this foreign thing, even though it was permeating the whole culture for many, many centuries.

So it's partly to weaken Buddhism, that's part of it.

And also, I think it was just like a kind of secularization of the culture, a little bit like Protestant Christianity, where at some point the priests started marrying.

And it was, I think, partly influenced by Protestant Christianity.

The government more like allowed, sometimes it said they forced the priests to get married.

hearing about here and there in the background

So

yeah, I think the classic way that Dzogchen would teach about this is, they have this term, nyam, in Tibetan, that means, like, meditation state, is one of the ways it's translated.

And the three classic ones are bliss, clarity, and non-thought.

And so they sound nice, right? But in fact, they say, like, these are the things to watch out for.

Because they're just meditation states, or sometimes they translate nyama as meditation moods.

And we love them, right? We love the blissful feeling.

We love the clarity where things are vivid and clear.

Yeah.