The mistake is thinking "awakening", "waking up" & "enlightenment" even should connotate the same way to different people. Nothing else works like that. There are always more entailments.
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Well anyone can mean whatever they want by anything, sure. But if we're talking about what something means in the context of Buddhism specifically - presumably using the pali canon as an authoritative text - then some connotations are more accurate than others.
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Hahahahah. I'd sooner expect to find my Self than a central Buddhist authority.
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I mean... fuck it. Touché.
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The Hindus don't even agree on who the Supreme Being is, or if there even is one. Buddhism confuses with its endless reference to the Buddha, but those Buddhas are not the same. Nor are the ethics. Nor are the metaphysics. Nor, indeed, even the goals and means of practice.
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Maybe Buddhism embodies a range of concepts found in such a constellation in no other place. But even that, I suspect, is a lie. "Buddhist" is just a word.
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I'm not just saying all this stuff to be a jerk, by the way. I think it's pretty foundational to this topic, or any topic in the same range.
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I wasn't ascribing any intentions of being a jerk to you. We're having a civil discussion (albeit one that is unlikely to be massively productive).
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Hey, I'll have you know I can produce a lot of words in a very short period of time!
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I have the very same skill! Arranging those words in any conventionally coherent order, though... that's a skill I could use some practice with.
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there are no arrangements of words that can communicate what cannot be communicated in words
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