What does Enlightenment feel like?

[phokist33]

My understanding of enlightenment, is simply a condition of the brain. It seems to be when somone is coming to some sort of realization. I don't think it necessarily has to be religious. And even if people become "religously" enlightened, it doesn't even mean that that is necessarily true, it still could be something to do with thier minds, and not god, and it certainly seems more likely that that is the case.

 

[xkatz]

It is just being.

 

[Morse]

It is just being.

Are you enlightened?

 

[xkatz]

Are you enlightened?

No I just understand it. But I guess that is the jist of enlightenment. It is just being.

 

[dogsgod]

Critical thinking enables us to become enlightened once we turn our sights onto our religious beliefs. Reasoning our way out of religion and throwing off the yoke of religious convoluted reasoning, superstition, is a most enlightening experience.

 

[xkatz]

Critical thinking enables us to become enlightened once we turn our sights onto our religious beliefs. Reasoning our way out of religion and throwing off the yoke of religious convoluted reasoning, superstition, is a most enlightening experience.

I beg to differ. I think you can be religious and obtain enlightment. Enlightment doesn't really relate to religion I feel. Religion is about the world around you. Enlightment is about self-being.

 

[YmirGF]

The comments in this thread have led me to believe that it might be time for me to use a different term than "Enlightenment" as the term has become a watered down shadow of its former self.

 

[Alceste]

The comments in this thread have led me to believe that it might be time for me to use a different term than "Enlightenment" as the term has become a watered down shadow of its former self.

Satori?

 

[katiafish]

In my undertsanding enlightenment is not a goal, a destination, it is more like a change in perception.
And after the enlightenment there come the dishes and the washing..

 

[Kilgore Trout]

The comments in this thread have led me to believe that it might be time for me to use a different term than "Enlightenment" as the term has become a watered down shadow of its former self.

Only because the people who tend to use it have become more watered-down.

 

[zenzero]

Friends,

*Water*
THAT"S IT.
when the being becomes water like then others would understand what is *enlightenment*.
The self has no sense of the self, it is no more a *self* but a BEING!

Love & rgds