tell me about it.
2007-11-10 15:14:59 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
several times a day as I sit on the shitter
2007-11-10 15:17:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think I do... Sometimes I get this thought this so clear and strong and new that I know that its true.... Its like the first time I watched the Dalai Lama.... He wasn't saying anything that I hadnt already heard... love... compassion.... friendship... Don't hurt people... Everything comes back to you.... But there was a way that he said it and a peace that it brought me that I hadn't experienced before, and I felt like even for a moment I had seen what he has seen..... It sounds crazy and sometimes I think that I talk about His Holiness like some people talk about Jesus, but I think that's part of the point... The difference I feel is that Im not shoving it anywhere people don't want it..... I am being honest..... That's one of the other times I feel Im touching enlightenment.... Someone will ask me a question... about my religion... and the answer comes from within me.... somewhere that I didn't know was there... and it is the most honest clear thought and I can't even imagine that it came from me...........
2007-11-11 00:18:21 · answer #2 · answered by tammy p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you want to be free? Then give up everything worldly.
All you are is what you do in life,.. everything else is just circumstantial. If you do self-centered things where you value worldly things over people,.. then you are evil.
A man asked a monk how to know God. The monk took the man on a walk for five miles to a river. The man finally getting there sees the river and thinks he's going to be baptized. So as the monk dunks the man and his grip tightens, then man freaks out and fights and yells out his breath. Then the monk releases the man and sits quietly on the beach as the man catches his breath. The monk then says, "When you yearn for God as you have yearned for air,.. then you will find God."
But I guess the metaphor works because the man fought until he had to give up. He reached an end to his prideful means,.. and at the brink of death he learned humbleness. Thus he could then see God with little inhibitions.
2007-11-10 23:25:44 · answer #3 · answered by itofine 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Your question is really difficult to answer! I have quested for "enlightenment", but, having done so, I now tend to think that it is both elusive and would probably be unrecognizable should one accidentally reach it. Additionally, I think that to claim to be enlightened would be egotistical and arrogant, thus rendering the claimee unenlightened! A glimpse, as you ask, is perhaps the most one could hope to acquire. During my search, I did experience moments when I believed that I had indeed discovered cosmic answers, therefore concluding that I might be on the threshold of enlightenment. Since then, I am skeptical!
2007-11-10 23:32:47 · answer #4 · answered by Lynci 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What can one say?
Some say the glass is half full!
Some say the glass is half empty!
When the mind is half full or half empty it creates a paradox!
When the mind has been emptied of all the unnecessary baggage, it is like setting inside a glass cube, then one can see in all six directions at one time.
This can be maintained, until one allows some of the baggage to return into the mind. Complete surrender to God is the final hurdle for man.
If you are indeed speaking of enlightenment!
If this is accomplished then one is ready to graduate to the next level! One will have graduated from kindergarten!
*footnote - This will never be shared again! You were fortunate!
2007-11-10 23:47:09 · answer #5 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Glimpses? No. My life is as enlightened as I can make it, which is why I've rejected the dark force of religion.
Faith is the choice to live in eternal darkness.
2007-11-10 23:24:17 · answer #6 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every once in a while, either at work, in biology, or at my hobby, astronomy, I get a flash of insight and see the world and universe in a new light which the dry equations come to life.
2007-11-11 00:01:29 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, most of the time they are fleeting glimpses.
Sometimes when I am smoked up I realize alot more of the "minute" aspects of life, and realize they're not minute at all.
2007-11-10 23:18:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Glimpses? After my union with God, all of life is an enlightenment, as I live in the constant presence of God.
2007-11-10 23:40:27 · answer #9 · answered by Christine S 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is called satori, or a peak experience, American Indians went on vision quest to find it.But it was rare.
2007-11-10 23:19:34 · answer #10 · answered by dave 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Glimpses of Enlightenment
If I am not a failure
Having failed
and not a success
having succeeded
Is it possible I am more than these?
If I am not my body
When I am in my mind,
and not my mind
when I am in my body,
Is it possible I am more than these?
If I am spirit that says: "I am",
then "I am that I am",
that "I am", that is "I am".
I know
I am
All
I am
2007-11-10 23:18:53 · answer #11 · answered by J~Me 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋