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What is Enlightenment?
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Here are the rest of the answers from friends old and new.
Enlightenment - looking for the best in someone else - not the worst - the mental will power to overcome negative projection and making someone else’s life more buoyant - not dragging them further down. Living simply so others may simply live.
- Michael
Enlightenment is a process of revealing how you are continually manifesting your experience of reality. By accessing the quiet peaceful still center in the heart of your being you will discover this truth. In the midst of this spiritual cyclone called life, within each chaotic moment there is a deep stillness. This is the center of your innermost being where true spiritual knowledge resides. Abide in this center & you will find yourself manifesting a rich life, full of meaning, clarity, depth and bliss in discovering your connection to an infinite source of love, intelligence & power.
- Jafree
Trusting the discovery of one’s own creative, intuitive imagination. - Jon
The state of acceptance of what is and ability to, with faith and an inquisitive spirit, see just where it goes.
- Dennis
It's freedom from fear & suffering, total presence. To be in bliss and amazement at all times. It's knowing without the slightest doubt that God is within us and that our fate and future are not in our control. - Mitch
In even the most mundane of everyday activities the sense of anticipation, great joy, and discovery of precious treasures of consciousness is experienced, just by being. This is the great Tao, and the truth of Zen Enlightenment.
- Cynthia
To me, enlightenment means a flaring-up of the light within. The light (God, Higher Power, The Christ, The Truth - whatever) which is never extinguished and which engulfs one in peace with an awareness of oneness with all.
- Anonymous
Enlightenment is the eighth stage of Kriya Yoga called Samadhi. It is the final segment of a three-step process in physiological, psychological and spiritual development where the individual sees himself or herself not only as a separate entity but also at the same time as universal. Total consciousness is not magic it is physics.
Kenneth
Enlightenment is the experience of becoming more conscious to our human condition through the natural process of receptivity to the life-force, Prana. This is known as Yoga, the union of mind, body and Spirit. Our nature as human beings, and our Divine right, is the ability to receive the healing energy known as Prana. Because we are Souls having a human experience, that is... we are energy beings that live in a body vehicle, our minds, bodies and Souls are healed by the inherent consciousness of the universe. In this experience, we become more awake to our human condition. Once awakened, we have the opportunity to feel compassion and forgiveness for ourselves and all of mankind. This is the process of Enlightenment.
- Pamela
Enlightenment is the ongoing awakening and falling asleep and awakening and falling asleep and... until you recognize the “Aha!” of evolution. - Perry
New and fresh insight and knowledge, usually from an external source. - Paul
What I imagine it to be is complete understanding of ourselves and our world. - Lee
To me, enlightenment is acceptance and appreciation of everything that does or does not pass one’s way in life.
- Anon
Enlightenment is a subjective experience entirely, arrived at by developing and following very specific pathways through the bodymind which connect the dots of life experience and reveal the way things really are.
- Josef
I’m going to give my therapist $65 and ask her to tell me what Enlightenment is. As soon as I find out, I’ll let you know.
- Suzette
Enlightenment is so huge and so simple - like all of the mysteries, it is paradox and balance. Moving toward the light through the fear and the darkness, until they become one. Each holding each. Opening the heart to love of many different kinds. Making a journey.
- Annie
Enlightenment happens when one is totally aware of ones own Divinity. The veil is then so thin that there is no longer duality. It is then that one can walk in peace and be the light to everyone else. Its like turning on the light in a room; there is no darkness anywhere. When you open the door darkness does not come in, but light goes out. Our light illuminates where ever we go. We can change the world when we wake up to our divinity. - Carol
Enlightenment is a realization in mind and body of the suffering that is at the heart of all existence. Nothing happens before this realization. When we come to this awareness we also come to a crossroads: We despair or we hope. If we despair, we may die short of our potential or continue in the loop of ignorance until we hope. If we hope, we then consent to participate in a life of compassion, a life of trial and error until in some millennium we become perfect hearts.
- Peter
Keep your mind open, but not so open that your brains fall out.
- Steve
Enlightenment, the act of not acting, but being. When one knows, from an intrinsic place, that he or she IS the very same "stuff" of the lowest and the greatest of creatures, then that individual is enlightened and there is no need to be anything other that what one momentarily IS. - Sherry
Enlightenment is being.
- Cedar
“Enlightenment: Remembering what you already know.”
- Beverly
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Lonny Brown,
HHC.
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Lonny J. Brown, HHC is the author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph, Publ.), and "Enlightenment In Our Time," (BookLocker.com/
LonnyBrown).
His writings on holistic health have appeared on AOL's Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications.
Lonny Brown teaches holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. His Web site also features essays, tapes, books, and links to a variety of integrative health sources.
Lonny J. Brown, HHC is also the author of " ENLIGHTENMENT ONLINE - The Newsletter for Spiritual Cyberspace.
holistic.com/lonny
lonny@holistic.com
lonnybrown@aol.com
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