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Heartfelt insights and reflections, shared directly from my heart to yours. These musings are meant to inspire, uplift, and connect us on a deeper level, fostering a sense of understanding and unity as we navigate this journey together.

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What is the connection between enlightenment and non-duality?

Well, enlightenment **IS** non-duality, but enlightenment is also beyond non-duality. Duality, non-duality, enlightenment are just words, concepts which...

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Is it spiritual awakening when you're losing all emotion?

Yes, pretty much. In authentic enlightenment you don't become thoughtless, you become emotionless. The confusion between the two is a big spiritual...

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What literally happens to the self when someone has a spiritual awakening or enlightenment?

It dies. Spiritual awakening is the realization of the non-existence of what you consider to be your "self". To the self it feels like death, or, one could...

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Is seeing the ego as illusory enlightenment?

Seeing the ego as illusory is not enlightenment, it is the dawn of the spiritual path. The contradiction lies in the very question - if you see something as...

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Is understanding the reality of consciousness equivalent to being enlightened?

No, but this is how it starts. If it happened to you, congratulations! Now the real fun begins. ;)

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Does spiritual awakening happen one time or can it happen more than once at different points in you life?

It's a question of terminology. Ego has a tendency to think it is much further along on the spiritual path than it actually is. Every ego tends to think that,...

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If there are endless levels to enlightenment, what should we be calling the simple realization that All is Self?

Well, you can call it many things, and it has been. It doesn't really matter what you call it.

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Is awakening the pinnacle of the human experience?

Self-realization (also commonly known as "ego death"), when it's irreversible and more or less complete, is, indeed, the pinnacle of human experience.

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Do you stay enlightened when you reach the state or do you go back and forth?

You don't go back and forth, no. If you go back and forth, it's not enlightenment, not yet.

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What are the differences between self-realization, enlightenment, omniscience and salvation?

Enlightenment and salvation (liberation) are the same. Other words for it are Nirvana and Moksha. It's a state of complete cessation of all suffering,...

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