Comments on: What is enlightenment?

By: Kato Kaizen

Kato Kaizen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:43:16 +0000

Thank you, thank you! Very wise and inspiring. I am happy you introduced me to your work!

Kato

By: CG Walters

CG Walters — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:55:08 +0000

…an excellent answer, Matthew!
“There is thus no true need to transform negative emotions or thoughts, because you are All That Is, which includes them.”
thank you.
Many blessings to you and all you hold dear,
CG

By: CG Walters

CG Walters — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:55:08 +0000

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:01:35 +0000

Impatience is great, isn’t it? There’s a certain irony to the thought that you can miss out and “waste” minutes. It creates waste and not being present, which is a missing out in itself.

Thank you Mary! It’s so much nicer writing to you having met you once over a year ago!

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:19:17 +0000

As the one who originally posed the question on enlightenment, I am grateful to all of you out there, and especially to Matthew (and Co.) who is putting all of this together for us.

I really like all these definitions of ‘enlightenment’ and since I posed that question, I have had an experience that might demonstrate the meaning.

My aim in life is to undo all the conditioning I have received from parents, teachers, religion and society at large. I tend to do this naturally through dream work. I have recently broken a 20 year recurring dream through which I now see a shadow part of me that I was projecting on to my spouse. This discovery made me feel literally ‘light’ as if a huge bag of stones had been taken off my back. I am not claiming now to be enlightened, but I am certainly ‘lightened’ in spirit. “Becoming who we are” is then something I can really relate to, because I am in the process of throwing out who I am not, and so dicovering the ‘real Me’.

I wish I could do it with as much abandon as stated in above comments. I’m one of those who feels the need to be always doing something, and cannot ‘waste’ a minute…..another form of conditioning I need to free myself from.

Great stuff!

Mary

By: matthew

matthew — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:52:58 +0000

That’s the “lighten” in “enlighten”!

There are of course an infinite number of ways to say what enlightenment is. Certainly what you say is equivalent to “becoming what we are already”.

By: radha

radha — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:13:46 +0000

How about E. as the awkening of the good qualities we have already stored but hidden within. When we become conscious of them they start blossoming and we enlighten…