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Awakening

Master Kosen – Published on January 30 – enlightenment

Question

Hello,
What does the transformation of awakening most resemble?
Water leaving the stillness of ice for the movement of water, then rising to become a cloud filled with light?
A plant emerging from darkness, with light guiding and participating in its transformation so it can grow ever closer to the light?
A butterfly transforming completely and acquiring a new freedom that allows it to help plants living on light multiply, and to reach the light itself?
The light of knowledge, which in all these transformations reaches a single luminous essence?
Thank you very much.

nouvel_anonyme

Master Kosen’s answer

The transformation of awakening has no defined form. It is new each time, because it cannot consist of reliving what we already know. It is not found in the past.

Kosen


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