Who is responsible for my suffering

They tell me that you have to cross 52 stages to get enlightened, to become a Buddha. You are almost a Buddha at stage 51 but its not perfect enlightenment. Its called near perfect enlightenment. You are awake, you are aware at stage 51 but you are not a perfect Buddha. What then is the difference between an enlightened person and a near perfect enlightened person.

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https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2022/04/26/who-is-responsible-for-my-suffering/

Who Am I

What you can perceive is not who you are. Because what you can perceive is subject to change. What you can not perceive is the unchanging reality. That is the real you. The reality transcends time and space. The real you does not have a form, it cannot be quantified, expressed, felt, heard, seen, tasted, smelled, imagined. It does not have a name or address, color or size.

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https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2022/03/02/who-am-i/ 

Language of Pain

Sugar is well, sugary. Salt is salty. But there is a difference when I eat a pie or a doughnut. Both are sweet but both have a different taste. Similarly, there is a difference between two salty treats. To complicate things a little – Say for example, two people share the same pie. Will both of them have the exact same experience of taste. Maybe one of them just does not have a sweet tooth. He will not relish the pie as well as the other person will.

Let me complicate this a little more. Let’s take examples of all of our five senses – taste, smell, sight, hearing, touch....

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https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2021/11/11/language-of-pain/