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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I'm in camp "let's just have some fucking fun!"
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Funny because it came from the absolute deepest center of my being.
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The point emerges naturally from that assumption, yes.
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Though right now I have an ethical problem.
Want to go and have a smoke by the lake,
BUT
This will hurt.
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Not a bad idea. But for next time. Got into a game of Blood Bowl instead.
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Ok thid is funny I subdued the craving my very vividly imagining having a smoke.
And now I feel nauseous.