The Form of Enlightenment and the Inversion of Gates
A list went around: ordinary people almost cannot awaken, because awakening needs four things. Extreme pain, long quiet time away from work, negating everything including one's parents, and doing one thing to the extreme.
As a report of roads some people have walked, it is vivid, and most of it is worth keeping: pain can crack a fixed picture, quiet helps, nothing handed down is final, depth in one thing opens something. The premise sits in two words, "needs" and "ordinary".
The tracing goes in three steps. A list of conditions draws a portrait of awakening and measures people against it…
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