13. Change of Lineage

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Having understood things just as they are, this next stage, Change of Lineage, which also lasts for just a moment, permanently changes a meditator’s mind in ways that I will discuss in just a bit. Such meditators join the ranks of the awakened. While the social designation of formal lineage transmission is a very useful thing to have received, the results of this stage are in fact what that symbolic act is all about. They have done it, and thus attain …

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