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Various descriptions, such as a state of awakenness or a cessation of desire.
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Introduction ∞
Enlightenment may or may not be capitalized, although it may be Dangerous to do so.
Enlightenment is not ineffable. It does not defy explanation, although it may seem to be beyond comprehension. It is the step before one discovers one's true path. It is an opening up and an understanding without comprehension. It is faith without understanding. It is a revealing and a beckoning. It is a personal and yet wholly shared event. It is a oneness and an openness. It is an event and yet somehow it is something carried within, for all of life and beyond death. It is something to strive for and yet wholly accidental. It is un-articulated and yet influencing.
Enlightenment isn't something to be earned.. it isn't a reward. It is our natural state. Like love, it is something which happens upon us when we are true to ourselves and live life well.
Terms ∞
In English and western traditions ∞
It is notable that other examples and phrases in English exist, English freely uses words from other languages, and English language-native cultures freely adopt foreign traditions, religions and cultures.
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- Motivation and Personality - (1954 book), by Abraham Maslow (978-0-06-041987-5) [ 1 ]
In non-English and foreign traditions ∞
Many examples exist.
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- Greek for "human excellence", frequently translated as "virtue".
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- Buddhism, means "one who is awake".
- See also Pratyekabuddha, in Buddhism, meaning one who attains enlightenment without outside aid.
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- Hunduism[doesn't exist] uses it for a variety of things not easily translated.
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- Hinduism, could be considered Divine Enlightenment.
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"Quality"
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - (1974 book), by Robert M. Pirsig has a long description of "Quality" from various angles. Understanding the term could be considered a piece of the enlightenment puzzle.
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Shugyo
- Japanese for the determined training that fosters Enlightenment.
- Musha shugyō is a samurai's walkabout.
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- Japanese for an idea akin to effortless perfection.
- Shibumi - Effortless Perfection, by AJJF Professors
- True Discipline
- See also Flow.
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The "mysterious gate" [ 3 ]
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The "mystic pearl"
- In Daoism, is a concept to describe the bright light and clarity of one aspect of Enlightenment.
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- An Aboriginal Australian wandering.
TODO - Unresearched ∞
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"Luminous experience"
Notable related terms ∞
- Satoru
- Japanese for "was Enlightened".
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Shinjin
- Japanese for "gods and men" (the "superior man")
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"The great death"
- Zen, is a concept of false notion of self dies even as you live and awaken to the larger reality.
Notes ∞
- The story of Master Sun and Vast Obscurity lists elements.
- True enlightenment can be seen by what a person has done, not by what he says. -- Musashi
- If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. -- Jack Handy
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110623152219/http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Enlightenment/
Aretē ∞
Greek (Ancient Greek) for "human excellence", frequently translated as "virtue".
Thus the hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ready speaker, a man of stout heart and broad wisdom who knows that he must endure without too much complaining what the gods send; and he can both build and sail a boat, drive a furrow as straight as anyone, beat a young braggart at throwing the discus, challenge the Pheacian youthat boxing, wrestling or running; flay, skin, cut up and cook an ox, and be moved to tears by a song. He is in fact an excellent all-rounder; he has surpassing areté.
Areté implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency...or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself.
-- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - (1974 book), by Robert M. Pirsig Part IV
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Footnotes
- The second edition is library of congress catalog card number 76-113490) [ ↩ ]
- or shibumi [ ↩ ]
- or "the altar of wisdom"
(see also Seat of Wisdom in Christianity) [ ↩ ] - Although this is a concept in funeral ceremonies[doesn't exist] [ ↩ ]
- See also trailokya in Hinduism [ ↩ ]
- I've seen zhenren written "chen-jen". [ ↩ ]
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