What's the purpose of discussing enlightenment/reality?

Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment.
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Diebert van Rhijn
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Re: What's the purpose of discussing enlightenment/reality?

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Dennis wrote:Free from prejudice, like that. Accurate seeing
No reason to call that bliss as if it's some reward. We could just as well call wisdom and insight: suffering. And be more accurate even!
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movingalways: At any given moment, I can cause myself to reason, I can will myself into reasoning, I can experience reason.
Diebert: But is it proper to introduce oneself as prime cause and will?
I and the Father are One.
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Dennis Mahar wrote:No excuses.
No justifiers.
Causing suffering is the suffering.
The Buddha taught emptiness/bliss.
True nature is felt.
Bliss is true nature? How can that be if bliss is not permanent?
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Bliss is true nature? How can that be if bliss is not permanent?
Because of impermanence.
nothin' to get.
where it's at.
The conditions.
in the midst of for the time being,
enmeshment;
embodied, embedded, enactive, affective, extended.
who could ask for anything more.
Wonderful.

An Event.
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