WHEN DOES ENLIGHTENMENT HAPPEN?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Does it happen to anybody in past time? No, because the past is no more. \u00a0Does it happen to anybody in the future? No, because the future is not yet. \u00a0 So that leaves only the NOW moment, the present moment. \u00a0Because the notion of past and future are only of mind\u2019s memory and imagination, we know that time itself is only a notion, something for the mind to help it conjure up ideas of relativity. If enlightenment happens to somebody then it has to occur in the present moment, and this does happen. \u00a0The right effort is directed toward stabilizing enlightenment and this is directly dependent on the continuity of the understanding of nonduality. When we recognize nondual existence and live life from this base, that\u2019s enlightenment. \u00a0 When we forget nonduality as reality then we, as presumed individuals subject to the notion of the separate ego, fall back into the old habitual tendencies of mind and separative thinking and perceiving. This is the instability we have to put forth effort to conquer. \u00a0Stability of the nondual realization in the present moment is enlightened presence. \u00a0This is why Sakyamuni Buddha was called \u201cThe Conqueror\u201d. \u00a0He never left presence.<\/h2>\n

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