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Ep. 141 – How and Why We Become Enlightened

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Enlightened Mind Is Like a Crystal

There is not one enlightenment. To have a wise approach to enlightenment, you have to change the word by one letter and add the plural. As consciousness gets clearer or purer, then you can experience the qualities of enlightenment at different times in different ways. The enlightened mind, or heart, is like a crystal. Sometimes it's emptiness. It's the darkness before existence. And everything drops away, and you just rest in this darkness. This is how the experience happens. i was starting to talk about it with the timeless or the being one,. Those are different dimensions of it.

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