Tantra and Embodied Awakening with Christopher Wallis.
Deconstructing Yourself
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The Spectrum of Awakening and Liberation
In this chapter, they discuss the concept of enlightenment and its translation from the original Sanskrit language. They explain that the term 'enlightenment' was influenced by the European enlightenment and is actually a different concept from the original Sanskrit term, which means awakening. They highlight that 'bodha', the root of enlightenment, also means everyday awareness and that there is a spectrum of awakening, rather than a binary state of being enlightened or not. They also explore the idea that awakening can make a person more true to their inner weirdness and less concerned with societal norms.
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