The surest evidence that all fundamental insight ('awakening', 'realization', 'enlightenment') is ultimately somewhat relative:
It changes depending on what metaphysics you apply to it.
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Are you timeless consciousness from which your entire life is but a contingently arising waft, like the smell of soup from a bowl?
Or is the entirety of everything you experience a series of contingent arisings, down to and including that consciousness that feels beyond time?
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These are articles of faith. Either position is metaphysically and ontologically loaded, and *unfalsifiable* by current means.
You may as well say God is real (or dead).
Also, they are not the only two possible interpretations.
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