An infographic about enlightenment

[Tassle]

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Hi, everyone. The infographic above is my attempt to bring some new perspectives to the issue of awakening.

Is there an enlightenment process? What triggers it? What happens during the process? I wanted to see if there's a way to explain all of it in a pragmatic way that doesn't include nebulous concepts and ideas.

I would be interested to see if you think my explanation makes sense. Perhaps some of you are able to make the same observations as I have.

[Gnosis]

I'll say what others here have spared you.

Your image is visually nice to look at, simple, and easy to understand, but it is arbitrary.

All insights communicated countless times by countless beings, arranged in an arbitrary manner.

That is not Enlightenment, nor how it works.

 

If you want to study the structure of awakening, I suggest reading into Spiral Dynamics to understand some important facets of cognitive development, then reading into the Ten Ox model of Zen.

I have subsequent less well-known and more niche recommendations that have the potential to really bring it together. Although I don't want to overwhelm you with reading and offer advice that isn't heeded.

And it goes without saying, but the map is not the territory.

Lastly, be open minded, not everything written about existing models or general insight is necessarily right. More often than not, it only appears to be right or true from a certain level of consciousness. That's how it works in the relative domain.

 

Best wishes.