What is supreme enlightenment?

CRAIG PEARSON: The “supreme awakening” is classically called enlightenment. From the standpoint of the great traditions of enlightenment, it’s the awakening to the limitless ocean of peace, bliss, freedom and power we each have within us — our inmost Self.

What does it mean to achieve enlightenment?

In Buddhism, enlightenment (called bodhi in Indian Buddhism, or satori in Zen Buddhism) is when a Buddhist finds the truth about life and stops being reborn because they have reached Nirvana. Once you get to Nirvana you are not born again into samsara (which is suffering).

Can meditation induce the supreme state of Enlightenment?

Wright explores the possibility that meditation can induce powerful mystical states, including the supreme state known as enlightenment. I ventured into this territory in my 2003 book Rational Mysticism. I interviewed people with both scholarly and personal knowledge of mystical experiences.

What does Enlightenment mean to you?

People traveling the various paths to Enlightenment feel that if they can achieve it, then they have achieved the Ultimate human experience. In its truest description, Enlightenment goes beyond intellectual comprehension of the experience. It is not about seeking God, speculating, or theologically theorizing about God or Ultimate Beingness.

What is not sought after in the Enlightenment?

Fame, fortune, notoriety, and worldly power are not sought after, for with Enlightenment such goals are seen as what they are: grand illusions of the personal ego and its constricted view of what life is.

Does Enlightenment make you happy?

But enlightenment does not make you permanently happy, let alone ecstatic. Instead, it is a state that incorporates all human emotions and qualities: love and hate, desire and fear, wisdom and ignorance. “The ability to hold opposites, emotional opposites, at the same time is really what we’re after.”.