after ~20 years seeking, an answer: the word "enlightenment" sucks. it points in the opposite direction of its referent; it encourages you to construct fantasies of mysterious exalted states and intensify your problematizion of reality. i propose "deproblematization."
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I’ve had a few temporary states that line up closely with descriptions that I’ve seen of others’ experiences of fairly advanced enlightenment, and am pretty convinced that enough practice would stabilize the qualities that made it awesome.
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I personally think of it as a learning/belief adjustment process, which is why it seems finite and doable to me. People stress over and over that there’s nothing fundamentally new that they’re experiencing — it’s just that they finally understood how they were experiencing things
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there's no perfection, only removal
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Not convinced removal is normatively desirable.
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