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If “enlightenment” cannot be experienced as an emotion, a feeling, understood as a concept by the mind, and transcends even experiences (as those come and go and cannot be held on to) what remains?
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When I stop identifying with my form and embrace my identity as consciousness or Being, my mind still desperately tries to understand formlessness and Being. My ego wants to know when it has achieved such a state and is constantly scanning to see if that’s the case.

I laugh because that searching is exactly what is preventing me from finding the stillness within me. If “no thing” remains after the patterns of my mind cease and my ego lets go of the past and future, then I become a conduit through which formlessness expresses itself and form and formlessness merge. I don’t know how to live in this state as I’ve been brought up to only live in a world in which form exists. To those who do know how, where did you start and where are you now?

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