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05-04-2017, 09:41 AM
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Master
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Pretoria South Africa
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Enlightment is waking up to who you are as a spiritual being and attaining the state of self love and love for all else. It comes with understanding the duality of this physical environment and knowing that it is temporary. It is gaining control of the physical body and living without its pleasures.
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05-04-2017, 03:50 PM
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Knower
Join Date: Sep 2016
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It seems to me that the right question is: Is it possible to be enlightened and have a low consciousness at the same time? If I look at my reality, then the answer is Yes. For example, asking the question "who or what is God?" Is caused by what is inside of you. The knowledge about God and life after death for example. Knowledge that comes naturally, with birth. That is enlightenment. But consciousness is a choice.
There are a lot of enlightened people with low consciousness. People who are aware of God and the afterlife, but when someone misbehaves say that person needs to be punished. Or say that God is something to be feared.
Also look at the ancient Egyptians for example. They were aware of life after death, but they used slaves to get there.
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05-04-2017, 04:26 PM
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Knower
Join Date: Apr 2017
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I feel enlightenment is realizing god
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06-04-2017, 10:20 AM
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Master
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Xanadu
Posts: 1,282
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07-04-2017, 03:56 AM
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Ascender
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 993
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jared.L
What does “enlightenment” mean to you?
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An object of belief in a diversity of religions.
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22-04-2017, 11:38 AM
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Master
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,558
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jared.L
...What does “enlightenment” mean to you?
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Being truthful.
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25-06-2017, 08:26 PM
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Pathfinder
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Near the North Star and North Pole
Posts: 96
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Quite interesting to try to define it.
Enlightenment ... realization of oneness,
seeing through the illusion of the existence of "I" as separate from the rest of the universe,
seeing that the phenomenal world is as much real as our dreams are.
Haven't experienced it myself but the descriptions of "enlightenment" I have personally heard or read about
(by people who claim to be enlightened and are also believed to be enlightened by many other people) have been surprisingly similar.
These people come from somewhat similar tradition though.
But still ... I believe that enlightenment is like waking up from a dream.
And it's a kind of "yes" or "no" experience ... like flicking a switch ... a sudden shift in understanding, not a gradual process of becoming wiser.
Like the shift from sleeping state to waking state ... the transition is usually quite sudden,
there is no long in-between between sleep/dreaming and being awake (every rule always has exceptions though).
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28-06-2017, 06:26 PM
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Master
Join Date: Nov 2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jared.L
What does “enlightenment” mean to you?
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Enlightenment is the self-defined awareness through an experiential symbiosis with the essence of absolute consciousness.
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28-06-2017, 06:54 PM
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To me, enlightenment is not about knowing more and being smarter than others, but more like being aware of things others aren't aware of.
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29-06-2017, 02:55 AM
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Master
Join Date: May 2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Necromancer
Enlightenment is the self-defined awareness through an experiential symbiosis with the essence of absolute consciousness.
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What is "absolute consciousness"? I may have asked you in the past or stated there is no such thing.
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