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Start of a longish thread on what awakenings "are".

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Apr 2, 2018

contemplate certain facts about the human condition, like the fact that seeking happiness leads to sorrow (very Buddhist). He's trying to get them to a Satori moment. In some ways his method is very similar to what J. Krishnamurit suggested.

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Think you've known this for a while but perhaps needed to systematize it. Just from our converations, everything already clicks. Nothing "new" for me there.

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(But yes, I'm aware the thread is not finished.)

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there's knowing it and there's systematization, as you say. But there is also KNOWING it.

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You had the awakening about awakenings, yeah?

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lol. But also, I gave you most of this info last time we talked.

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Well, yes, but you'd already told me everything before, on separate occasions. I'm not much of a systematizer myself, but I integrate what I am told quite fast.

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And also, I already had this awakening a while ago. But I guess I didn't fully grasp the significance, because I didn't think much of it. It was just "oh, OK". Maybe that doesn't make it the same awakening, strictly speaking, but yeah...

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(The reason I had it was also because I reflected on something you told me after "losing" something I thought I knew (with capital K).

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