There can be something escapist about meditation with the goal of reaching enlightenment

• Enlightenment is the spiritual equivalent of fusion. It would solve everything but it’s always 30 years away.

• Instead, we should be all in on this life, this cosmos, not looking for something else.

• Could be part of why Buddhism seems to be somehow incomplete

• I suspect that enlightenment has become widely misunderstood, and that the original meaning was something far more attainable and proximal.

• enlightenment isn’t the endpoint; it’s the beginning of fully living