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Involvement in the game of arriving at Transcendence is the Enlightenment Syndrome. It is based on the belief that Transcendence is attained through practice or technique. It necessitates various gross and/or subtle efforts to arrive at Transcendence in the same way that a child attempts to bicycle hir way to the end of a rainbow.

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The Enlightenment Syndrome consists of all that is done or avoided in an attempt to attain Transcendence.

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The Enlightenment Syndrome arises when distance is assumed between oneself and the Ultimate. By simply casting aside that assumption one is at Transcendence.

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The Enlightenment Syndrome is a creative stance for generating drama.

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Most everyone on what is called a spiritual path is operating on the Enlightenment Syndrome. It is a popular stance among those involved with spirituality.

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The Enlightenment Syndrome is mastered by identifying one's models of Transcendence and realizing that Transcendence is always already the case, regardless of conditions and appearances. Transcendence is not a situation. With such understanding one does not mistake one's models of Transcendence, known as beaugalos, for Transcendence, even as a wise prospector does not mistake fool's gold for real gold.

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Contemplation of Shankara's third aphorism in his Self-Knowledge, which declares that action cannot destroy ignorance, since it is not in conflict with ignorance, liberates one from the Enlightenment Syndrome.