🕊️“Awakening” and “enlightenment” are terribly vague terms for most people.
sometimes referring to the universal, undeniable sense of being that is so simple and everpresently already here that we almost never think to pay attention to it (without training), except when something is so beautiful or horrible that it knocks us out of meaning making and we’re confronted with the immensity of experience.
Sometimes we mean an abiding realization/resting in the conscious knowing of that alwaysness: nonduality; a persistent state of nonsymbolic experience; seeing that the constructed nature of the world and self are so ephemeral and empty that our experience is better understood as a dream; union with a divine quality of love and surrender into the fullness of experience.
Other times we mean a total perfection of being human—not just the abiding realization, but some obviation of all shadow material (cleaning up)—repressed and split off self-bits, unconscious motivations, unhealthy or self-destructive habits).