Define Being "Enlightened"?
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God shedding His wonderful grace on you and despite circumstances finally seeing the truth. It is nothing of your own power but of Gods mercy and grace. He chose us before the foundations of the Earth.\n\nEyelovesJesus: You are so sweet! God bless!
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"Ignorance is Bliss" is a reference to not knowing something that will cause you pain if you did. Example: Someone might be happy with their relationship until they found out their significant other was cheating on them.\nThis saying has nothing to do with the human's thirst for knowledge.
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The limbic system of your brain has corrupted your worldview, but that's to be expected in a very insecure universe.  People who are enlightened use their cerebral cortex to look for the creative side of life and for happiness here on earth during the short sojourn between the random event of birth and the random nothingness of death.
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Negative energy/thoughts/fears all stem from the ego.\n\nEnlightenment (Self-Realization or God-Realization) occurs when you merge into Oneness with God Consciousness and recognize the Divinity in everyone and all beings. You become englightened when you recognize that you are not separate from everybody and God.\n\nThink of yourself as a drop of water and God is the Ocean of Consciousness. We are separate. Enlightenment is when you merge yourself like that drop of water into that Ocean, then you become that Ocean residing in your physical body. You become fully aware of all that is in that Ocean, all of that knowledge, wisdom, bliss, love, etc.\n\nAmma is an enlightened person, a "pura avatar", born a Pure Soul. She loves every single person unconditionally and equally because she sees herself in every single person. A never-ending-river of love flows from her endlessly.
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Yes, ask lot's of questions, don't be fobbed of with rubbish answers and make sure you can test the answers for accuracy.  Enlightenment is finding the truth... we can't do that by blindly accepting what other people tell us or by following old clapped out melodramatic religions.
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What is Buddhism really all about?\nSimply speaking, this is to avoid harming others and to help them as much as possible. Another way of expressing this is, Abandon negative action; create perfect virtue; subdue your own mind. This is the teaching of the Buddha. By abandoning negative actions (killing, etc.) and destructive motivations (anger, attachment, close-mindedness, etc.), we stop harming ourselves and others. By creating perfect virtue, we develop beneficial attitudes, like impartial love and compassion, and do actions motivated by these thoughts. By subduing our mind, we cut away all false projections, thus making ourselves calm and peaceful by understanding reality.\n\nThe essence of Buddha’s teachings is also contained in the three principles of the path: definite emergence, the dedicated heart and wisdom realizing emptiness. Initially, we seek definitely to emerge from the confusion of our problems and their causes. Then, we see that other people also have problems, and with love and compassion, we dedicate our heart to becoming a Buddha so that we are capable of helping others extensively. In order to do this, we develop the wisdom understanding the real nature of ourselves and other phenomena.\n\nbrief overview:\nhttp://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/pathmaps.htm\n\nbecome enlightened:\nthe Buddhist teaching is one of being enlightened  now rather than doing anything to become enlightened. The idea that you must do something to become enlightened can only come from wrong understanding. Then enlightenment is merely another condition dependent upon something else - so it is not really enlightenment. It is only a perception of enlightenment. However, I am not talking about any kind of perception but about being alert to the way things are. The present moment is what we can actually observe: we can’t observe tomorrow yet, and we can only remember yesterday. But Buddhist practice is very immediate to the here and now, looking at the way things are.\n\nNow how do we do that? Well, first we have to look at our doubts and fears - because we get so attached to our views and opinions that these take us into doubt about what we are doing. Someone might develop a false confidence believing that they are enlightened. But believing that you are enlightened or believing that you are not enlightened are both delusions. What I am pointing to is being enlightened rather than believing in it. And for this, we need to be open to the way things are.\n\nWe start with the way things are as they happen to be right now - such as the breathing of our bodies. What has that to do with Truth, with enlightenment? Does watching my breath mean that I am enlightened? But the more you try to think about it and figure out what it is, the more uncertain and insecure you’ll feel. All we can do in this conventional form is to let go of delusion. That is the practice of the Four Noble Truths and the development of the Eightfold Path.
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my day has been enlightened....how can i thank you enough?
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Our minds usually accept the dogmas and myths of our culture. Most peoples' minds become programmed with the beliefs of their era and society. They don't think for themselves but let their parents, their friends, their favorite TV show, or what cultural beliefs  implant  in them. To be able to form sound opinions and make effective decisions, you must know how to think critically.  Enlightened thinking involves the careful consideration of multiple points of view and keeping our minds open to alternative sources of information. Unless we work at becoming critical thinkers, there is a natural tendency is to limit our ideas to only those that are easily available, never really discovering or considering alternative sources of information.  Christians and most people following dogma and never think to question what they are learning.  Sheep - humanity is in reality a herd of sheep.
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And the question is???\n\nBut thanks for the information, was enlightening.
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Getting to know you,  getting to know all about you...what one is able to see in others  is directly connected to their ability to feel the other persons essence. One does not always see with the eyes..but often with the intellect & the heart. I believe that one's glory should unfold on a daily basis. N'est pas?
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in·sight [ín st]\n(plural in·sights) \nn \n1.  perceptiveness: the ability to see clearly and intuitively into the nature of a complex person, situation or subject  \n2.  clear perception: a clear perception of something \nthanked him for his remark and told him it was an interesting insight \n \n3.  psychology self-awareness: the ability of a person to understand and find solutions to his or her personal problems  \n4.  psychiatry perception that hallucinations are not real: the perception, lacking in some psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, that symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations are not objective
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A lamp. I feel "enlightened" by much that I have learned. Perhaps if the lamp is turned on (not that way ....for shame!) it could provide illumination to those who can not see in the darkness. Yeah...I wanna be a lamp. :)
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Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, objective, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, sober, unromantic. \n\n2pts.
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"Civic consciousness" would be an awareness (consciousness) of one's community.  At the very least, it means that the individual is aware of what is going on around him.  Ideally, it would mean that the individual is involved in the life of the community--understanding his role in the community--seeking to contribute when he is able to do so.  But to do these things begins with an awareness of one's community and the civic life in which we participate.\n\nJust as a side note, the highest form of excellence for the ancient Greeks (arete) was involvement in the life of the community, and those who chose not to partake in that life were referred to by the Greek term idios--the root from which we get the word "Idiot."  So civic consciousness has long been seen as an important part of what it means to be human.
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Enlightenment that is not for all humanity isn't Enlightenment! There is no personal peace without peace and liberation for every person. \n\nKinesiology has nothing to with Enlightenment, and neither does elitism. With ego death all competition, inequity, arrogance and self righteousness die. People have made Enlightenment into another object to attain, but it is their egos that want it and so their egos learn the 'enlightenment script.' As long as there is a desire to do harm, there is no Enlightenment. \n\nAnd NO enlightened person would ever want to profit from their revelations. If they are making money selling enlightenment, they are no different than any other cult/religion. \n\nKinesiology! That is sad...\n\nIn Christ (not Christianity which offer no enlightenment)
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living meaningfully...gratefully, understanding the other.
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We struggle as conscious beings to grow and learn and become enlightened. We study to grow closer to truth and lucidity.  To succumb to weakness, whether in our studies or in any other aspect of our lives, is to fall back into the darkness of savagery. Each generation has a responsibility to further the collective awareness and conscience of all mankind.