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Here’s a Short Bullet-point Quote (SBQ) summary of "Why spiritual teachers say you can’t think your way to enlightenment":

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🧘 Why You Can’t Think Your Way to Enlightenment

• Thinking arises from dependent origination, which ultimately leads to suffering, not freedom.

  “To ‘think’, the above conditions are satisfied… but suffering is the destination, not enlightenment.”

• Enlightenment requires breaking the causal chain before thought arises—especially:

  • Volitional formations (intention)

  • Name and form (duality and labelling)

  • Ignorance of impermanence and self

• Thinking depends on contact and sense bases, which generate:

  “Feelings > Craving > Clinging > Becoming > Rebirth > Death and Suffering”

• Letting go—not analyzing—breaks the chain of conditioned arising.

  “Enlightenment comes from breaking down all the links of dependent origination… through letting go.”

• Even subtle intentions obscure the emptiness that awakening reveals.

  “It can be glimpsed, but lost once the subtlest of intentions arise.”

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🔚 Bottom Line

Enlightenment is not achieved by conceptual effort but by releasing the need to define, label, or grasp.
It is the absence of volition, identity, and duality—a return to unconditioned, undefined presence.

Let me know if you want this tied to specific Buddhist texts or turned into a visual map of the Dependent Origination chain.