Heh heh, Dharma. We are going to have to define this ‘illumination’ thing. I feel I am musing and speculating about a fabled state of being from a position of non-illumination.

I am ruminating on a possible state, as different to us as waking is to sleeping. I imagine that if all were illuminated then this world would not exist.

I get that we can hypothesise that at a fundamental level all is one. We can even start to ‘feel’ it, but I’m not sure this is what i’m alluding to.

As I say, i am speculating from an occluded viewpoint so there is a certain amount of groping around in the dark.

Suffering to me seems to be a tension between ‘spirit’ and ‘matter’ . We are strangers in a strange land. Absence of suffering might only be the remit of the psychopath. Lol :-)