In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality. Zeena Schreck
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The word "enlightenment" is used to describe the moment when a person sees things as they truly are. This moment is usually tied to having achieved something that is called "awakening". The reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it truly is.

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