| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 3/15/2007 2:37:38 PM |
If I had to guess, I'd say enlightenment is true love for All.
Then I'm sure you'll like these two poems.
Love is that feeling that connects you
With everything you know is part of you.
It is your heart,
Your senses, your feelings;
A friend,
Your lover,
Your best friend;
Your brother,
Your sister, your pet;
Your family,
Your neighbor,
A stranger walking down the street;
The view of a beautiful scenery;
The sky,
The ocean breeze,
The bright shining sun,
The darkness in the night,
The stars in the sky.
It is also that silent moment
That you create within you in times of peace
Bringing you closer to all of this
You know you are -- it is godliness within you.
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I am the tree
I am the forest
I am the wind
I am the rain
I am the storm and I am the clouds
I am the moisture that forms the clouds
I am morning and I am evening
I am the sky
I am the stars
I am the universe
I am thought and I am imagination
I am soul and I am spirit
I am the beginning and I am the end
I am eternity
I am infinity
I am the undivided Whole the indivisible Source
The unchanging Constant behind all experience  | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 3/15/2007 2:57:34 PM |
38. If a man's thoughts are unsteady, if he does not know the true law, if his peace of mind is troubled, his knowledge will never be perfect.
Were you referring to George Bush?   | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 3/20/2007 12:14:47 AM | OP
I have felt it twice...both times after being really upset about something...Its a feeling of peace that just washes over you and you know that everything is going to be ok. You don't question it ever again....you know it like you know that you will breathe. It has happened after praying...other religions may call this meditating. My personal religious beliefs define this as giving it away to God. Some may call it grace. All I know that although I was raised in the church, I don't attend that often...but I do believe in prayer. It wiped away any doubts that I may have had in the big picture, and also that the universe doesn't abandon anyone... Hope that helps. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 3/29/2007 12:56:27 PM | I'm very happy that this thread is still going relatively steady after so long.
I have recently found that enlightenment is something that comes to those who need it, not those who want it.
Whenever I tell myself I am not good enough, there is that voice that says "yes you are; everyone is".
That's enlightenment.
When I feel scared or alone, I feel the wind, and it is like a whisper, licking and caressing my skin, flickering off of me. I know then that Gaea doth care for her Guardian, so to speak.
That's enlightenment.
Enlightenment symbolizes the bringing of light unto the dark areas of the soul; areas that were once mysteries become new tools and powers of self.
I don't know how to describe what it feels like for everybody. I think it's different for everyone in at least the most subtle way, and as much as a near-infinite way.
For me, enlightenment feels like a sudden change in the way the world works: everything is easy.
I can roll a cue-ball across a table while looking at my friend on the other side, right in the eyes. The ball goes right into the intended hole, regardless of which one it is.
All laws of nature become like knowledge that "this is air", and "this is water". The constants and variables of energy and matter are such simple things all of a sudden.
And that's just materially. My mind becomes as self-knowing (and understanding of others) as it could ever hope to be. My emotions are in perfect balance of extremity and moderation. My spiritual feelings are in sync with my experience of reality.
I can answer any question with absolute certainty, and the answers do not come from my brain's memory. It is as if my brain - instead of being an isolated PC, is connected to the Universe-Wide-Web.
You may think that's a dorky analogy, but I've always seen prayer and meditation as the use of the human self as a sort of ham radio to other worlds. You just need to keep the components in working order (through exercise and applied use), and practice the correct channels. Eventually, you can speak to God in moments, rather than spending years trying to find his spiritual frequency.
Do not laugh at this way of seeing the spirits and gods. It has served me very well, and for 18 years old I have found myself at a level of development beyond quite a few of my peers.
Despite this, I think the best way to display the beauty of enlightenment is to be loving to others, no matter what the consequences.
~ David | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 3/30/2007 4:12:48 PM | | To me "enlightenment" means KNOWING with out a doubt that we are not alone in the universe. I found this out in 1969 and started reading every book I could get my hands on about the subject. And while it answered a lot of my questions, it also opened up a lot more.........You may have guessed by now, what Im talking about is UFO's.......... | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 3/31/2007 10:37:05 AM | This is it... This very moment... Not your take on it, not mine, not snapshots of this moment, but this moment... We are all enlightened... That's why we ask these questions... You just have to see it in the right light is all... I know it will happen for us all. I wish to be enlightened, that means I wish you to be enlightened... You have to see something from nothing and all as one and one as many without paradox to see what I mean... Do you feel it when you see someone else in pain? Take anything you want and put it under a microscope til you get past the atoms and junk and what do you see in the spaces between the atoms and junk? Nothing... Thats what we're made of.
Everyone has these moments... You just have to take notice. Be one with us... We're all in this thing together(aliens included). So, I'm ranting... That's my take at this moment, but everything changes... That's all we know for sure.
Guardian-- I like your take on it too. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 3/31/2007 6:32:16 PM | | One of the many spiritual experiences I've had involved going out of my body to "The Place of Pure Knowledge" (this is my name for it). While I was there, I felt like I was formless--just one big mind--and I had access to ALL knowledge!. I was also aware of many other minds who were there with me. And I was able to look down on my human body & see how limiting & small it made me feel when I was in it--and how I was so much more than that in reality. Unfortunately, when I came back, I couldn't take all of that knowledge back with me--only glimpses of it. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 4/1/2007 11:43:19 AM | | A glimpse is all you need to remind you Bluemoon... Sometimes we think it's just too much information for our brains to handle, but if you take away all those notions, there is no information... Just knowledge... Knowledge takes up no space at all, like instinct... Now that you've felt it, you know... The work isn't over once you've found it... That's sometimes the confusing part, but if you think on it, I think you'll see what I mean. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 4/1/2007 1:32:11 PM | Being enlightened is different then being reasured.
For me it is a feeling of knowing something from a source outside mankinds ability to understand something that he would never even consider having an answer for.
It is a source of knowledge that comes to us. We have not the ability to go to it. Other wise we could call upon it from any place and any time and it would be there at our bidding. The fact that it comes to us in the simplest to the oddest of situations and times not of our choosing is a testament of it's own controling atmosphere.
When you pray for knowledge you might get an affirmation to a question you already believe you have an answer for or are in doubt of.
When your enlightened, you recieve knowledge you are not searching for. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 4/1/2007 2:07:32 PM | It is all in the /////////////knowing part of spirituality. It does not mean you have arrived, it just means you are listening and are open to hear the Message of Light. Sadly, I think many people stop after they feel "enlightened" . Which it should just be the beginning of finding their way, path in this world. Keep your heart open and trust in what you feel and believe. Also, tell others of this, they will call you crazy, but believe it or not...........there are those that will actually understand and listen to your words. They will see a change in you. Your thoughts are not the same. You are more powerful and live a peaceful life without the world holding you down. They will want to have what you have. Simply because it fills their empty soul.
God bless you all, on this road to discovery.
Tara | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 4/1/2007 2:38:37 PM | ^^^^ YES!
I totally agree, people need to stop thinking that enlightenment is the goal, and that you are finished once you've reached it.
It is not assurance in one's wisdom that makes them wise. It is truly their constant doubt that shows them ever-greater truths.
It's also true that those people who would shove down your free-spirited power are the ones who will be most dumbfounded by it.
And as far as strange times for it to come, here's an example:
Just last night I was watching my friend play a video game. The goal of the game was to annihilate the other side's buildings using military units.
He was stagnating, getting little done, and making me antsy. I said, very suddenly, "God, just let me play?"
He was surprised, disturbed, but he let me. Within five minutes, I was laying waste to the other side, and he was quite entertained watching me do it.
If any of you have read Ender's Game, you'll know that Ender is very much an "enlightened" person, despite being quite violent.
The reason is that he naturally knows how to command, follow orders, or kill one-on-one as necessary, and he is able to come up with brilliant plans without thinking. He doesn't really take credit for them, either...
He probably realizes that they're not exactly his ideas...
I might be remembering the book wrong, but that's how I saw it.
~ David | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 4/3/2007 6:05:40 AM | it is the point when you reach liberation
the point where you can really help others with wise words
the point when you no longer need ever be negative
the point when you give and need not take,
maybe?
I wish I knew now, I can only guess and ask my heart what enlightenment feels like | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 4/3/2007 11:48:50 AM |
What does enlightenment feel like?
You know when you're sitting in a chair and you lean back so you're only on two legs, then you lean back a little further, then you lean back even a bit more, and you almost fall but you catch yourself at the last second?
That's enlightenment baby!
...oh yeah, and that moment right after the Father lets you breathe again, that's enlightenment too. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 4/9/2007 6:00:34 PM | it is the point when you reach liberation
the point where you can really help others with wise words
the point when you no longer need ever be negative
the point when you give and need not take,
May i add:
It's also the point you feel you need nothing, you miss nothing
knowing that you simply are.
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 5/21/2007 10:25:20 PM | In Him all the treasures of [divine] wisdom ( comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God) and [all the riches of spiritual] knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden.
- Colossians 2:3 | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 5/22/2007 4:32:16 PM | I think many people stop after they feel "enlightened" . Which it should just be the beginning of finding their way, path in this world. Keep your heart open and trust in what you feel and believe. Also, tell others of this, they will call you crazy, but believe it or not...........there are those that will actually understand and listen to your words.
I agree completely... Enlightenment is just a crucial stage of "being enlightened"... The search is never over because you don't know the path unless you are on it, but you don't have to know you are on a path in order to follow it... And soon as you stop following the path, you are no longer on it... Like the Dalai Lama says--
"We don't learn because we wish to be enlightened, we are enlightened beacuse we wish to learn"
Looking for enlightenment is like looking for the sunglasses on your forehead, or the keys in your hand... And as soon as you feel it, you laugh at yourself and continue on your way with a goofy smile on your face.
And goofy smiles are contagious! | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 5/22/2007 5:01:29 PM | | Spiritual Enlightenment... something I was chatting about this very night. It is the realization of something not tangible, yet paradoxically solid enough to be the answer you probably never thought to search for. I really don't know if it can be found in a book. Mine came at an early age after a supernatural event, a kind of vision that made me realize the universe holds all answers. The way I see it, if people can believe it comes through the pages of a bible or a sermon then why not through your own observations... a perfectly still and cloudless night sky can reveal more than you think. :) | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 5/22/2007 6:35:11 PM | | To me enlightenment means the distinct possibility one might have finally, in this lifetime, beaten this earthly trap. If one is no longer covetous of any earthly treasure; no longer lusting after earthly sexual quarry regardless of their desirability; no longer obsessed by ambition to fill any earthly position; no longer corruptible by Satan in any way. Instead, while still stoutly bearing the yoke of one's humble livelihood in this world, one is filled with a longing for a perfected reality; by faith in God that he may arrive in death at last in His Kingdom "not of this world". Surely this is enlightenment enough to graduate. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 7/25/2007 9:16:17 PM | Enlightenment a.k.a. awakening is not a state as such, it is a change in perception, a different way of seeing and being that sometimes comes about by loss. In my experience it's not about something gained. It is, in my experience the fundamental discovery of what one truly is. What I've seen is that 'there is no - one,' there is no such thing as a person. There is no "me." There is a sense of self, to be sure, but upon looking inside, there is the realization that there is nobody there. If you want to read more about what I've learned, have a look at my profile.
Cheers, all.
MN | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 7/25/2007 9:55:39 PM | For me enlightenment is the acceptance that we all have a predestined path which is set out for us before our souls descend from the light onto earth. When we realize our path and choose to live it and embrace the light, it is a feeling of total acceptance and love from the creators (not that we aren't loved anyways). Enlightenment is the connection with our higher knowing selves and realizing that we do have all the answers we seek deep inside our very beings, brains and souls. They manifest to us when we are ready to accept them and flow with them. Enlightenment is a happiness I feel a lot, although human stresses, which are normal, sometimes interferes with this feeling. But most of all, I feel it is peace, love, light, laughter, friendships and connections made with special like-minded individuals. That is just my take on it.
Love, Light and Laughter
J | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 8/1/2007 2:15:44 PM | ^^^Why would someone do that? So they can be the only one enlightened? That goes against the very nature of it all in my opinion...
Are you saying the Buddha should have just stayed under his tree and not tried to better his surroundings by teaching we can all be enlightened?
Are you an enlightenment hog? | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 8/1/2007 3:56:48 PM | Imaginations.....
To be enlightened is not just a feeling of letting go, which can be a huge release of emotional energy the first time...but the understanding that makes it possible to let go at all times, through practise.having released all other emotion there is a great feeling of peace and love to be experienced a whole new life, the way you think will be changed forever.God breathed into them new life.
Every part of my being is sustained by the breathing process, my body my mind and my spirit.The way that i think..the way that i act and the way that i am can have a profound effect on that process. Suppression is the minds only natural defensive mechanism and guards us against any unwanted feelings and thoughts...unfortunately for me that means the amount of oxygen(tree) that travels through my body is suppressed and the effects of that are plain to see, in the way that i or we behave.We all quite often become dazed or sleepy or trance like and in that state its not difficult to become deluded. Suppress the breath for long enough and we will eventually be overcome by it..there called emotions.The mind can only do without for so long.
"God sent them a powerful delusion and they chose to believe the lie"
Religion has not failed us....the truth is many have been blinded by it, those looking for the truth will eventually find it and those who have found the truth will suddenly see again.(that was its purpose)
The Bible was God breathed and heaven was made in his breath!
Lets be realistic for once, learn to meditate and you will discover a greater power within.The breath of life that sustains every part of ones being....every cell!
I have come to realise the tree i sit beneath feeds the air that i breathe... i just wanted to share that with you. Sorry for going on. I hate lies and pretense of any kind.Only the truth will do. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 9/2/2007 5:53:45 PM | Truthfully, until it happens to you, you won't know and words cannot describe it. The best thing that words can do is act as a pointer in that direction, but they cannot truly describe it, because what happens is beyond the mind. There are feelings in the body, certainly, but what truly changes is one's perception, the way the world and the (apparent) other(s) is/are seen.
Meditation doesn't necessarily give you access. Awakening can happen anywhere, any time, and no one is exempt. I recommend having a look at the teachings of Tony Parsons, http://www.theopensecret.com/, who illuminates the utter simplicity of it all. His words are eloquent, simple and direct. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 9/2/2007 6:04:56 PM | | I think it is a permanent state, one to be sought after. One of clear mindedness, where one sees everything for exactly what it is. One of joy, bliss, and understanding. One of "being" and acknowledging and knowing that everything simply 'is.' Non-attachment to all. Compassionate, kind. | |
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| What does enlightenment feel like?
Posted: 9/2/2007 6:25:01 PM | Enlightenmnet, IMO, is not a permanent state, it is fluid, dynamic. It is the sensation that the entirety of existence is laid out before you; that the 'beginning' and 'ending' are one and the same, a sparkling nexxus of 'stuff' that you could hold in the palm of your hand. I've had that feeling once, and only once, and ever since, I have strived to reach it again. Damn universe, with its constantly changing-ness...
Hey, Trip, how did you reach such place? Where were you? How do you know it was not a dream? Come on, doll, give me more to work with here!
Mine came at an early age after a supernatural event, a kind of vision that made me realize the universe holds all answers. What event? You boys are so vague..Ive never experienced such a thing and it has been something that I feel that I could, yet... | |
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