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What is Enlightenment?

Republished in Buddhadharma, (Fall 2017)
"Here the story is passd on with the flame : Enlightenment is our true nature and is our home, but the complexities of human nature cause us to forget. That forgetting feels like exile, and we make elaborate structures of habit, conviction, and strategy to defend against its desolation..."