Can scholars ever stand outside the knowledge they study? Beginning with a dispute over the title of a single university course, this episode examines larger debates about objectivity, evidence, and whose ways of knowing universities recognize as legitimate. Drawing on classroom practices, student reflections, and the work of scholars who offered public lectures for the program, episode 3 of this five-part series in the podcast Buddhist Studies Footnotes argues that contemplative traditions are not merely objects of scientific investigation but can also contribute concepts, methods, and questions to contemporary research. As discussions of first-person inquiry, decolonization, and reflexive scholarship unfold, listeners are invited to reconsider the hidden assumptions that shape modern universities—and to ask who ultimately decides what counts as knowledge.