Damn straight! You live your life with compassion and enlightenment is the reward. That assumes that one reads, listens, talks and studies human issues, of course. Stupid compassion - that issued by rote because one's religion, culture, ethnity, race or elected officials potificating teaches it - is a sure way to never get near enlightenment. You live a life of Political Correctness and you are doomed. We have brains and we are expected to use the grey matter for good. Stop inundating your head with all the crap that is popular culture - currently at a low in America - and begin to reason within a environment of common sense. You will get there.
Oh, and it is a challenge once you get there. You stand out in many ways and others take pot shots. But you are enlightened and you expect nothing less than another challenge around the bend. Enjoy.
2006-08-13 17:56:57
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answered by ALWAYS GOTTA KNOW 5
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John 1:9 says that Jesus "was the true Light, which enlighteth every man that cometh into the world."
So to answer your question, everyone is enlightened by God at some time in their life to make a decision for or against Christ without any deception or distraction to sway that decision.
Heb 6:4-5 says that being enlightened isn't the end all or be all of Christianity. Upon deciding for Christ a person receives the heavenly gift of salvation, and can then go on to be made a partaker of the Holy Ghost.
But there's still more!
When a Christian walks in the Spirit, he/she tastes the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come.
The Holy Spirit is the "earnest of our inheritance", so just as Eliezer told Rebekah about Isaac, Abraham's only begotten son as they journeyed from Ur to the promised land, so the Holy Spirit reveals to those who have ears to hear all about Jesus God's only begotten son.
2006-08-14 00:47:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Everyone has and even you at one time or another. Enlightenment is when you find yourself able to get out of a big problem and you find it quite rewarding to experience a fall and then able to rise up triumphantly, with a lesson learned and a resolve never to have it happen again.
If you are asking the Christlike enlightenment or a buddhalike one, each one of us will experience it differently in a different degree. It will always depend on your expectation or non-expectation of it. The light, the bliss, the moment can be described on a similar fashion as how your mind was formed. Oftentimes it is good if you have never been told what it was to be enlightened. The print in your mind will not be biased.
2006-08-14 01:01:43
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answered by Rallie Florencio C 7
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Try reading about Buddhism. They got indeph details on enlightenment and how to achieve it. I haven't achieved enlightenment but I know all about it and how to achieve it. However its too much explaining if I told you here lol
2006-08-14 01:02:50
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answered by Anonymous
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What you might describe as 'enlightenment' I might describe as the 'lifting of the veil.'
The process would require pages to recount but the most extraordinary blue-white light surrounded me; I could feel all of my transgressions (no other way to describe it) being lifted away. I thought I was going to levitate...I felt so light, so clean, so aware.. so at peace. Forgiven. My life changed, forever.
That is not the only time the Light has surrounded me; there have been two other times. The last one was after my truck tire was hit by a stray bullet: I felt the traction give way and immediately thought of the morning's devotional: Psalm 91:11 (For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways..). Instantly, the blue-white light was surrounding me and holding me in the seat as the truck went into the ditch tailgate first, then flipped end over end...twice...and then side to side...twice. I still remember watching in awe as four toolboxes full of tools went airborne inside the cab, tumbling over and over (300 years from now, some archeologist is going to uncover some mightly fine tools in that field >grin<). I remember watching the glass break, and everything shatter around me.
Not one tool hit me; not one shard of glass cut me; not one chunk of twisted metal gouged me. My beloved Dodge short-bed step-side pickup (which I had personally rebuilt bumper to bumper...arrrrgh!) was mashed flat; and yet, when I was found, I was sitting on the mangled bumper of the truck and holding my Bible. Not one scratch.
The 'light' stayed with me during the 30 minute drive to the hospital, all through the emergency room triage and up to the moment the doctor put his hand on my shoulder.
Enlightened? you bet! What was it like? The most extraordinary and pure and beautiful peace you can possibly imagine. Like being weightless, and covered in love.
2006-08-14 01:14:09
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answered by ax2usn 4
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I really don't think someone could reach enlightenment there is just way too much to learn.... but for a better answer ask a Buddhist.
2006-08-14 00:49:17
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answered by Cutie Teacher 3
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It can last only a split second, and you may not become aware of ANY tangible or sensation al feeling. But enlightenment happens on many levels, and you will definitely REALIZE it.
2006-08-14 00:52:43
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answered by GiGi 4
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Achieving enlightmentment is very hard.But if you live according to religion fully,purely ,you may achieve it.you may feel the enlightment but you can't share it with others.
2006-08-14 00:54:02
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answered by mm 1
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Salvia is momentary enlightenment. Try it sometime.
2006-08-14 00:48:15
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answered by wideawake42 3
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YES! YES I HAVE. And it is True The Truth will set you FREE!
Study the Bible With Those Who Wittness for The One And Only
True God, JEHOVAH AND HIS SON OUR KING JESUS CHRIST.
(John 17:3) 3Â This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.
2006-08-14 00:49:42
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answered by Anonymous
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