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You're Enlightened implies an "I am Enlightened". Now, you're somebody special. This very realization takes you out of Enlightenment. Impossible to define Enlightenment, we can only point to what it is not.


Maybe not... I believe that my love relationship with Love makes me very special, and so do most people I meet. May I not be happy with my lot? Is my Happiness in my beautiful Friend so fragile? Everything on Earth is illusory, and the only lasting truth is that there is only ONE. Shall such understanding be its own undoing? I find my Friend in your eyes; in helping you I help Her - I do her work. Spiritual life is not really founded on brain-twisting mysteries at all. It unfolds bit by bit OK? Hre is encouraging news: Happiness is the reward of those who do the work of Love, and those who partake of the Happiness of Love also partake of Love's Beauty.


There is no undoing; nothing lost, or gained. What is true for one must not be true for another.


The article does describe someone who is either not enlightened or has been taken out of enlightenment.

Maybe they experienced it, maybe they didn't, but now they are concerned with what to do with their enlightenment. It's gone, if it ever was there.


Sounds like it's not entirely gone just yet :)

But Enlightenment does not imply Clarity, which may come from more contemplation and perhaps some guidance.

Some people never experienced Bliss.

Some people experience Bliss all the time.

Some people can experience Bliss whenever they like, or need to.

Bliss is not Enlightenment.

So just because someone tasted ice-cream, doesn't mean they should eat it all the time, or that tasting good is all ice is good for.




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