2007-11-01 01:49:42 · 18 answers · asked by Claudia A 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is not a perfect world, it is a challenging world. This is good since challenges exercise the human spirit, and keep it healthy, if not overdone. One can not find absolute or perfect truth. One can work real hard, and with great sincerity, and come up with pretty good answers, but they won't be perfect, even though they may work quite well when applied to life. You try to be as enlightened as possible or practical. But if you are aiming at some perfect state of spirit or understanding, that state does not happen, You just do what you can.
2007-11-01 02:51:07 · answer #1 · answered by astrogoodwin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The moment is when an individual knows all of Donald Rumsfeld's "States of knowledge":
To achieve this, a person must:
1. Know all known knowns.
2. Know all known unknowns.
3. Know all unknown unknowns.
The problem them becomes this:
Once you know any of the "unknown unknowns" [#3] they fail to be "unknown unknowns" and move to being "known knowns" [#1]
Since that is the case, it is then impossible to fulfill the three knowledge requirements.
I'm sorry. Donald Rumsfeld has proven it: There is no enlightenment.
2007-11-01 09:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by Ryan T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All anxieties subside. No confusions left. No grief, no sorrow, no anger,, only happiness... you see all is one and The One in All. No questions left. You very well know " who you are". It is bliss. Total Bliss. Ever lasting bliss. Nothing affects you. You are one with the all pervading. This is the condition of a real enlightened man. Very briefly described.
2007-11-01 09:51:34 · answer #3 · answered by yog_shakti 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When enlightenment is fully realized. That is, its not merely known and believed by the brain, but it becomes real to the person :)
2007-11-01 14:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by It's a lamp! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For me, I don't think it will be until I am "outside" of this system and can look on it impartially. Maybe if there is existence after death, that would be the time I would find out what's really been going on here.
2007-11-01 08:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you can consider yourself enlighten at any time...do you feel enlighten by words or power what or whom have enlighten you books maybe ...only you can know this ..do you want to share it...
2007-11-01 09:01:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When it no longer matters to him whether he is enlightened or not and he realizes he is fine right where he is.
2007-11-01 08:59:18 · answer #7 · answered by Tamara S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you realize that there are other people in the world besides just you, you, you.
When your heart learns to forgive others for hurting you, then you have begun your enlightment even more.
2007-11-01 09:16:11 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are none, and never will be.
Anybody who considers themselves "enlightened" is just fooling themselves.
2007-11-01 08:58:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When they accept themselves. If your not so selfconsious of yourself, and are truely intune with your inner being, you are enlightend. No matter what your education or religion.
2007-11-01 16:23:53 · answer #10 · answered by Buffy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋