2007-01-21 03:43:16 · 22 answers · asked by Meeowf 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
waking up with my life and all of my senses in tact.
2007-01-21 03:50:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ENLIGHTENMENT
Anyone can be a Gautam Buddha, but not everybody can be a Michelangelo or Nietzsche. This is because spiritual realisation is everybody's birthright.
It is not a talent like painting, music, poetry, or dancing; it is not genius either. A genius has tremendous intelligence, but it is still of the mind.
Enlightenment is not of the mind, it is not intellect; it is intelligence of a totally different order.
People like Friedrich Nietzsche who have missed the journey towards their own selves were great intellectuals, geniuses unparalleled — but all that belongs to the mind.
And to be a Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Zarathustra is to get out of the mind. It does not matter whether you had a big mind or small mind, a mediocre mind, or you are a genius; the point is that you should be out of the mind. The moment you are out of the mind, you are in yourself.
So the strange thing is that the more a person is intellectual, the farther he goes away from himself. His intellect takes him to faraway stars.
He is a genius, he may create great poetry, great sculpture. But as far as you are concerned, you are not to be created, you are already there.
The genius creates, the meditator discovers. Consciousness has nothing to do with creativity, it has nothing to do with inventiveness, it has nothing to do with science or art; it has something to do with tremendous silence, peace, a centring.
When an ordinary man meditates, he comes to the same space of blissfulness as Nietzsche, Einstein or Russell.
That space of blissfulness will not be different, will not be richer for Bertrand Russell because he is a great intellectual. Those values don't matter outside of the mind.
It is as if you all fall asleep here; you will be dreaming. Somebody may have a very beautiful dream, and somebody may have a nightmare. But both are dreams.
And when they wake up, they will know that the beautiful dream and the nightmare are not different — they are both dreams. They are non-existential, mind projections.
Enlightenment is discovering your being >>
This is great and good news because it means a woodcutter or a fisherman can become Gautam Buddha. An uneducated Jesus, an uneducated Kabir, who doesn't show any indication of genius, can still become enlightened, because enlightenment is not a talent, it is discovering your being.
And the being of everyone is absolutely equal. Suddenly all distinctions, talents of the mind, disappear. There is only pure sky where you cannot make any distinctions of higher and lower.
Enlightenment is the very nature of things. But it has never been said that way; on the contrary, people's minds have been corrupted by creating a goal against nature, giving it beautiful names, "supernature".
And man was caught in this because of a very simple reason: The nature of things is already where you are. It is not an excitement and it is not a challenge to your ego.
It is not a faraway star. Mind wants for its nourishment something very difficult, something almost impossible. Only if you can achieve the impossible can you feel you are somebody special.
Enlightenment is not a talent. It is not like somebody being born a painter or a poet or a scientist — those are talents.
Enlightenment is simply everybody's very source of life; it is realising the fact that "I am that which I have always wanted to be, and I have never been anything else and I cannot be anything else, ever".
2007-01-21 11:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The most beautiful thing in the world is summer at the beach. I just want to go out there and collect specimens and look at them under my microscope and just realize that the world is my oyster and acknowledge that there are more important things than government tests and SATS
2007-01-21 12:01:14 · answer #3 · answered by Jane 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All the people I love are the most beautiful thing I can find.
2007-01-21 11:55:31 · answer #4 · answered by Kristie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A magical sunset - colours of gold, fuchsia, pink, orange, blue, flowing across the sky - reflected in the rippling glorious sunset-drenched lake. Constantly changing, a moving picture on a vast scale. Painted by a masterly hand and kiss-blown to we earthlings.
How privileged and humbling to view.
2007-01-22 01:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The positive side of things,beauty,compassion,etc..
2007-01-21 15:07:31 · answer #6 · answered by black holes 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Music.
2007-01-21 11:48:08 · answer #7 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My husband ! Who has given a beautiful son and a life that is a dream come true.
: )
2007-01-21 12:15:16 · answer #8 · answered by Kitty 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The person I want to be.
On a more realistic note, I'd have to say my mind, just as the one who mentioned this earlier
2007-01-21 16:15:51 · answer #9 · answered by poppyseed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opening my eyes in the morning and seeing my husband sleeping next to me and walking into my daughters room and seeing her cuddled up to her dora blanket sound asleep.
2007-01-21 11:54:19 · answer #10 · answered by marinewife 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Happiness, love, and music. Because without any of these I couldn't survive.
2007-01-21 14:03:34 · answer #11 · answered by Liz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋