{"id":328,"date":"2014-12-06T21:08:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T21:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escrituras-eremitas.com\/english\/?p=328"},"modified":"2014-12-09T01:46:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T01:46:41","slug":"long-take-get-enlightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/escrituras-eremitas.com\/english\/2014\/12\/06\/long-take-get-enlightened\/","title":{"rendered":"How long does it take to get enlightened?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How long does it take to get enlightened?<\/h2>\n
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Depiction of the Buddha<\/a> under the bodhi tree, place where he achieve enlightenment after 6 years of search and practice.<\/p><\/div>\n

This question may be answered with an old story:<\/p>\n

A monk is walking through the countryside. He asks an old lady sitting by the side of the road how long it will take him to get to the mountain. She ignores him. He asks her again and she ignores him again. And so for a third time. The monk assumes that the woman must be deaf. As he walks on he hears her shout out: \u201cSeven days!\u201d The monk return to the woman: \u201cgrandmother, I asked you this question three times and you ignored me each time. Why did you wait until I had walked on by before shouting out the answer?\u201d The old lady said, \u201cBefore I could answer I had to look at how fast you were walking and how determined you looked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buddhists who are convinced that there is such a thing as enlightenment and that they have potential to realize it, and who are following the path to that realization, gives little time to speculating on how long it will take. Seven days, seven months, seven years, seven lifetimes \u2013however long it takes, there is no alternative route.<\/p>\n

More questions and answers<\/span> HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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