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When does pilgrimage happen
‘The smart pilgrim leaves at dusk and arrives at dawn.’ Vel The pilgrim leaves (i.e. quits, departs, lets go) when her home (i.e. her stable (i.e. enstatic) identity (Buddhist: atta = own difference = permanent address) presenting (or self-presencing) as true (because wholly affective, therefore real) self) disintegrates. The pilgrim’s home (for home read: sanctuary, to wit, her unit of order) begins to disintegrate towards incoherence, i.e. towards entropy because of energy dissipation, resulting from lack of contact (read: food). Loss of energy is experienced as ‘en-darkenment’. Enlightenment (i.e. ‘golden’ dawn, resulting from energy released (as a surge, i.e. as an increase or profit) at arrival, i.e. when the problem is solved) happens when the (i.e. a new) sanctuary (i.e. the new home (as permanent address = stable identity) is reached (in fact attained, i.e. when the pilgrim has become her sanctuary = home, to wit, her new true (because wholly affective, hence real making) self (as stable (because quantised or unitised) identity). In short, true pilgrimage (always) happens in the (‘dark’) night. Arrival at (i.e. becoming the) sanctuary wakes the pilgrim up to a new day. In ancient India, the pilgrim who had woken up (to wit: who stood on an off (because new, i.e. original, hence his or her ‘own’ position), consequently had acquired a perspective, hence had understood) was called a Buddha.
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