Has Ascension replaced Enlightenment?

[Marin]

Posted by markpierre (here)
I'm not sure of the practical value of defining either. No one is somewhere other than where they need and are designed to be. If those definitions and distinctions still have meaning,
they can only be in comparison, which defines dualism. It's all illusory, it's all a fraud. You don't 'change' your consciousness. But you can and do allow it to be changed.
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There is no hierarchy in attainment. No one is or ever has been further than a single thought away from reality. It's conceptual thought that causes the barrier.
It's more embarrassing than blissful to discover. That's not the end of experience and growth.
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It can be after years or lifetimes of training or seemingly completely spontaneous. An untrained mind remains in illusion. But no one can know how much of the dross
has been burned in one's own self, or in another.
The hopeless drunk dying on the sidewalk is potentially far closer to God than the successful guru.
It's the release of all you think you know that reveals what is.

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