When you have a profound spiritual moment in meditation, you might feel extremely excited and even imagine you’re close to enlightenment.
But hold on a minute! Don’t open the champagne just yet.
If you go off to a spiritual teacher for confirmation, he or she may respond with a wry smile. They may very well say, “You have a ways to go.”
But what is “a ways to go?”
Let’s look at that question through the lens of Buddhism and the insights of the contemporary non-denominational spiritual teacher, Adyashanti.