Why don’t people who meditate nearly every day for decades achieve permanent enlightenment?

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Great question. It dives at the heart of two things, meditation, and enlightenment. When you know what those two things are, it’s easy to see how ‘merely’ meditating can’t get you anywhere close to ‘permanent’ enlightenment. So I mostly talk about enlightenment in terms of surrender. One is enlighten