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I've been trying to interview 'enlightened' people and it's so hard because people's relationship with that word is extremely fucky. People are like "yes i am basically everything described by enlightenment but no i'm not enlightened" and I *get* it but it makes this hard

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They are incredibly rare and generally not available for anything substantive to the merely curious.

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I'd be willing to talk to people who view enlightenment as "incredibly rare", even if they don't view themselves as that, as long as they feel they know clearly what that state entails/how it's defined/what it isn't.

11:41 PM · Dec 10, 2019

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Like, the point of my project right now is to try to map out the different things people mean with that word, not to find the "correct" enlightenment.

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I think I can help you prove why the state cannot be defined by language. Also, it is experience-able, as in "not complex but unfamiliar" to most minds.

Muralidhar Dhanakshirur

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Haha.. Ask

for an interview directly.

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hey I'd be willing to share ideas. did a lot of research into buddhism back in the day. quick hits: -it's potentially achievable in months -practitioners at that level actually get "re-enlightened" multiple times -enlightenment is maybe not worth it