I am trying to encourage each one of you to be brave enough to wisely consider the way things are rather than have someone tell you whether you are ready or not for enlightenment. But actually, the Buddhist teaching is one of being enlightened now rather than doing anything to become enlightened. The idea that you must do something to become enlightened can only come from wrong understanding. Then enlightenment is merely another condition dependent upon something else---so it is not really enlightenment....Believing that you are enlightened or believing that you are not enlightened are both delusions. What I'm pointing to is being enlightened rather than believing in it.
---Venerable Ajahn Sumedho---
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