Eastern Enlightenment lets go of meanings imposed by motivation. Its goal is liberation. Western Enlightenment lets go of meanings imposed by religion and superstition. Its goal is rationality.
I think it is the realization that everything matters exactly to the degree we chose, and its implications.
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To be honest, man, that would be like a mile marker a few hundred klicks down the road. THEIR conception of enlightenment is like walking along an infinite road for millions of lifetimes (sometimes as a god in heaven) then waking up, and going 'elsewhere'. Except its weirder.
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Except that this would be epistemologically unclean. Other lifetimes only exist like this lifetime: as false memories and runaway projections. (And there is no 'elsewhere', only 'constructing otherwise'.)
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