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Re: Your Definition of Enlightenment? [Re: jivJaN]
    #10933586 - 08/25/09 11:30 AM (14 years, 7 months ago)

me me! i did that!:laugh:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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InvisibleChronic7
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Re: Your Definition of Enlightenment? [Re: Lion]
    #10933747 - 08/25/09 11:54 AM (14 years, 7 months ago)

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Lion said:
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Chronic777 said:
Try & keep it short & fresh please, if you have a paragraph stored up in your mind about what enlightenment is, please throw it away...

What is the ultimate knowing/illumination that is called 'enlightenment'?

In my opinion, Knowing Who I Am, is what is called enlightenment, as its the ultimate understanding.

"Know ThySelf"

:peace:



Enlightenment - verb - proceeding from the knowledge of the luminous emptiness behind all phenomena in a continuous state of creativity, spontaneity, and absorption in compassionate action




I like it, i can smell the freshness of it... :rose:


Id also like to add that in Knowing the Self, all the above fall under that umbrella

Ive come to notice that simply by understanding the centre/Self, that everything 'good' happens spontaniously within that seeing, happyness, compassion, efficient creativity etc...

Ramana Put it well, i cant recall the exact quote but the message was 'all auspicious actions happen spontaniously in the Self Realized mind' he further insists that

"Your own Self-Realization
is the greatest service you can
render the world."


I see this as a great pointer because if we get caught into having to try to be creative, compassionate & spontanious, then the very trying is already not spontanious :wink:

Compassion is like space, its here beyond cultivation


"The Real state must be effortless"


It so simple, that which is Eternal & Infinite must be effortlessly itself

Me or You are none other than That

:grin:

:peace:


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