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Really appreciating seeing this perspective from @Meaningness, who has stared at Buddhism 100ร as much as me. It's something I'd been coming to appreciate myself recently, grappling with various people referring to various things as "Awakeness" https://t.co/Mwsf3V4SAu https://t.co/1Gc07bdE4M
And so +1 to dissolving the word "enlightenment", but we do need words to talk about certain temporary or persistent states of being that afford different kinds of perception or cognition. The word "awake" seems to work okay, but maybe it needs to be qualified as "awake to _____"
Or maybe they just all need their own terms, based on what they make possible. And "awakeness" or something else could still be used when talking about things that are true in general of these different states. Curious about suggestions. ๐๐
Oh! one thing I've been realizing is that it seems that almost everything people want to call "awakeness" is associated with right-hemisphere brain function. That is, they all involve an awareness of the limitations of re-presentation and a connection with what is present. ๐ค๐ง
Gonna add @meditationstuff's tweet/article "Many Enlightenments? a non-rigorous position" here too, since it's obviously relevant. https://t.co/fpFn1jNvf9