there are two types of valid experience: higher and lower. Those on a high level of spiritual experience have, for example, trained in the altruistic intention to become enlightened to such a point that their wish to attain Buddhahood for the sake of others is genuine, without any contrivance; they also have realized emptiness with incontrovertible inference or even with direct perception; and they have developed meditative concentration to the point of becoming clairvoyant and generating miracles. We, however, being on a lower level, do not now have these qualities. Still, we could have a
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