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What is Spiritual Enlightenment? |
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Spiritual Enlightenment is the experience of our true nature - our essence - and a simple way to explain this is through the liberation from our own mind. This means for the brain to get out of its own way and for the mind to become liberated through the change from thought identification to mere thought observation. That which is observing your thoughts is your true enlightened nature. |
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How can I achieve spiritual enlightenment? |
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The Buddha taught that spiritual enlightenment means to "recognize your essence" and all his 84.000 teachings can be condensed into this. One good path to realizing your true nature is to have a direct experience of the Buddhist concept of "Emptiness." Here we have to go back to the mirror as a metaphor for the mind, or consciousness. Our mind is an empty mirror in which thoughts occur as reflections. Our true nature is the mirror - we are the mirror. Our thoughts, as reflections in the mirror, are our subjective self, or ego. |
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The dissolution of the body is followed by an inner dissolution that dissolves the gross mind-body experience at death. This inner dissolution is the psychological experience of the final stage of death. The inner dissolution of the mind is from the gross to the subtle, where the gross mind of confusion is dissolved into the subtle mind of its own true nature. This dissolution is a powerful transformation of consciousness, which happens as the awareness that identifies with the elements that make up the body is transformed into an awareness of the true nature of the mind. |
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