To feel the experience of this moment as it is, without the overlay of hope or despair; this is the only awakeness. 3/
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To equate nibbana with "enlightenment" is a misunderstanding. If we think nibbana is is something that can happen to us, we haven't understood it at all. 4/
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um... no
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That the quibbling over terminology is in any way ameliorated by... more quibbling over terminology.
You're using a hammer to flatten a dough.
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Not what was entailed.
I agree semantics matter. Connotations, too
Yet, the disagreement is phenomenological, not semantic. You can redefine, but it won't clarify.
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Trust me, I disambiguate language for a living. We're operating at the wrong level of analysis for the topic.
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Had that happen more than once, actually.