How will I know if I achieve complete enlightenment?

Answer 1

When you don't have to ask if you have.

Answer 2

How do you define Enlightenment In your words?

I'll give you my preceptive, I Believe you can't know everything that there is there is just too much.
everything is connected more you know and more you will realize how less you really know. but that does not mean you cannot become enlightened. There is not complete just like that is no perfect. I don't believe Buddha was completely enlightenment but i do believe he was a lot more enlightened then the average person. you can always become better and better no perfect my friend the really enlightenment is Death.
i don;t know really what kinda of person you are but if your trying to become enlightened don't try to worry about when wil you become fully enlightened focus on becoming enlightened. When you do this you will different side of life thing will make sense more and more and you will no care about being completely enlightened because you will feel you know what you need to know and anything more you want to know it will come as you go on with your life.

i hope what i said you can intake as i see it and work it out in your life the way you are like. i know it might of confused a bit because of my grammer but if you have any questions here is my email [e-mail]

Answer 3

When you feel confident and at peace sufficient to continue your intellectual journey. Enlightenment is the goal but you live in the process of becoming enlightened. Humility, intellectually speaking, and the ability to listen to others w/o interrupting them are signs of a developing enlightened attitude. Ability to sacrifice for the good and for agape(unselfish love), Loss of subjectivity are other indications. To be enlightened does not mean you have to be perfect or that you will ever be perfect. It just means you get better at living wisely and helping others to do so by example and action.

Everybody becomes enlightened by experience, but some somehow manage to see beyond their own experience. Don't ask me how bec I don't know how they do it.. But you know it when you see it in some people. We used to say , once reverentially, they are older and wiser and more mature than their years or experience would indicate.

Also beauty matters more and you have respect for other people and all living things.


And in my belief system you probably have more Q's than A's and your Q's and A's keep improving coming from the deeper understanding you are open to examining and changing as you learn to teach/coach and teach/coach inorder to learn.

Answer 4

It's like looking down from the top of a mountain with 3D vision, seeing all around, up and down at the same time. This will enable you to understand the things the way they are, as the souls are rooted in God's Spirit and struggling to evolve towards perfection and unity in God. This understanding will naturally make you compassionate towards all other living beings.

You may not sustain such state of enlightenment all the time. But continuous practice to get into that state again and again and again, will lead to God Consciousness even as you go through your daily worldly activities and your wisdom, understanding and compassion born of such state will manifest in each activity you do.

For some it takes only a short time to accomplish that state; for others it may be a life long process. It's important to never be discouraged or to stop practice; for once you are in that type of practice, it's a matter of time that you will be able to attain sustained enlightenment.

Answer 5

you will gain the complete wisdom of the Buddhas and become Buddha yourself. all your doubts will be solved; all your sins will be erased, all your true wishes will be fullfiled and you will gain eternal life and awarness that you have always been Eternal Buddha even if your human body.
in the same moment, you will change your whole society the way you like it because of your clean deep subsconcious mind. you will become better you, wiser you, more powerfull, happier and without any worry. you will see this world as paradise and you will not make distinction between life and death. you will be still alive but you will enter into nirvana.
to achieve perfect enlightenment, you have to read and recite the Lotus Sutra and to chant namymyohorengekyo. gradually, you will become Buddha in this lifetime.

Answer 6

The complexity of human nature and its environment that becomes the key to true enlightenment. It is a realization of disambiguation of many parts that completes this worldly existence and spiritual makeup. To know it is to be enlighten.
Spartawo...

Answer 7

You will know if you can answer this question for yourself. besides how would i know, only someone who is completely enlightened can give you judgement if you are completely enlightened.

Answer 8

Of course, if you think you are enlightened, you aren't. I think there will be a full discovery of 'no separation' and complete understanding of the way things really are. True wisdom, boundless compassion. Gee won't it be swell? :)

Answer 9

By the fact that nobody will believe or understand your insight except other enlightened people.

By the way, be careful what you wish for. Enlightenment is not necessarily a happy place.

Answer 10

If you are a witness to your own sleep every night.. the light is always there... that is one milestone. But there are two big milestones after that. But that first one is the most significant, since the rest will follow automatically after that one.

Answer 11

Read the story of the Brahman who achieved it, in the book "The Death of a Guru." Achieving it in the Eastern philosophical meaning brings death to the mind. He became a vegetable.
Achieving it in the Western tradition means learning the original Seven Liberal Arts, [the Trivium and the Quadrivium] which is a much better choice in my opinion.