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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No "seeming" relative in claims that are totally contradictory. That's a red herring.
(Non)continuity of the existence of you after the death of the body is nothing if not a metaphysical claim (under our current understanding of physics, at any rate).
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It quickly gets into the realm of religion. Which works for me since I have one of those, and it isn't one that's big on definite things and thinking other religions and interpretations are wrong.
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Sure, sure. The main issue is the conflation of religious belief with capital-t Truth.
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