As you struggle to come to terms with Culadasa's admission of sexual misconduct and "wrong speech", you can: 1. Tie yourself in knots trying to shoehorn this new information into your current model of enlightenment, or 2. Admit that your model is wrong
The problem with #6 is that being awake to some things means your not awake to other things. Certainly one can be more or less awake, but there’s no awakening without blindspots, many of which we are motivated to remain blind to.
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The only way one could imagine that they know what’s going on in a complete way is to eradicate notions of past and future and to largely strip away language. Which leaves us with an impoverished sense of knowing.
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That's right. You can only be awake to the experience you're having. There's an infinite number of experiences you're not having right now, and you can't be awake to them. Impoverished or not, this experience is as it is. Imagining it to be otherwise is the problem.
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