What happens when enlightenment is achieved?

In Buddhism, enlightenment (called bodhi in Indian Buddhism, or satori in Zen Buddhism) is when a Buddhist finds the truth about life and stops being reborn because they have reached Nirvana. Once you get to Nirvana you are not born again into samsara (which is suffering).
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What happens when a person becomes enlightened?

The enlightened person is insightful and open-minded. He is able to see the world with great clarity, without attachment to preconceived ideas about people, places, and things. This enables him to observe the world without jumping to conclusions.
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What happens when you reach spiritual enlightenment?

Simply, spiritual enlightenment is awareness of the world (mindfulness) and a release of all pain and suffering. You no longer feel fear or aim to protect yourself. When confronted with something that would provoke negative emotions, instead, enlightened people only feel love and understanding.
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What did people do after the Enlightenment?

What happens after enlightenment is you continue to live your human life but from a much higher level of consciousness. You continue to work on yourself to achieve total Self-Realization. Once you achieve Self-Realization, you no longer re-incarnate on Earth in the Human Game.
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What happens when a Buddhist reaches enlightenment?

Buddhists believe that human life is a cycle of suffering and rebirth, but that if one achieves a state of enlightenment (nirvana), it is possible to escape this cycle forever. Siddhartha Gautama was the first person to reach this state of enlightenment and was, and is still today, known as the Buddha.
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What Happens After We Attain Enlightenment?



What are the 7 stages of enlightenment?

The Seven Stages of Enlightenment
  • Common sense.
  • Awakening.
  • Revelation.
  • The great work.
  • Illumination.
  • Transfiguration.
  • Cosmic consciousness.
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What is the final stage of enlightenment?

The last stage of Nirvana is Arahant. One who enters this stage is free from all ten fetters and become free from the cycle of rebirth and death as well. An arahant attained the level of Nirvana by following the path shown by Lord Buddha.
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What does it feel to be enlightened?

“The ability to hold opposites, emotional opposites, at the same time is really what we're after.” Enlightenment is profoundly satisfying and transformative, but the mind remains in many respects unchanged. “You're still neurotic, and you still hate your mother, or you want to get laid, or whatever the thing is.
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What comes after the Enlightenment?

Now what follows after enlightenment is probably better called “deepening.” Enlightenment is not a perfected self, not a perfected personality, not a perfected human condition. Enlightenment has nothing to do with that, it has to do with realizing yourself as the consciousness of God.
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Do enlightened people fall in love?

With Enlightenment, there is unconditional love for all (as there is no other). So it is not a matter of loving or not loving someone. You can't fall into that kind of love as love already is.
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How can you tell if someone is enlightened?

Look for these ten signs.
  1. 1: There are few physical signs of an enlightened person. ...
  2. 2: They Have A Peaceful Energy. ...
  3. 3: They Speak Gently But With Purpose. ...
  4. 4: Compassion Is Their Motive For Everything. ...
  5. 5: Their Compassion Extends To Themselves Too. ...
  6. 6: Their Sense Of Purpose Is Unquenchable.
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Is the Enlightenment permanent?

While entheogens do produce glimpses of higher spiritual states, these are always temporary, fading with the effects of the substance. Permanent enlightenment requires making permanent changes in your consciousness.
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What happens when you have a spiritual awakening?

The spiritual awakening.

You begin to clear certain things out of your life (habits, relationships, old belief systems) and invite new, more enriching things in. You may feel like something is missing, but you haven't quite figured it out yet. During this phase, it's common to feel lost, confused, and down.
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What is the spirit of enlightenment?

The Enlightenment was, at the same time, rationalist and empiricist, an heir to René Descartes as well as to John Locke. It embraced the ancient and the modern, universalism and particularism, history and eternity, detail and abstraction, nature and art, liberty and equality.
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How do you speak enlightenment?

Break 'enlightenment' down into sounds: [IN] + [LY] + [TUHN] + [MUHNT] - say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.
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Is enlightenment an illusion?

Enlightenment is a reality and not an illusion.
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What is full enlightenment?

In the western world the concept of enlightenment has taken on a romantic meaning. It has become synonymous with self-realization and the true self, being regarded as a substantial essence being covered over by social conditioning.
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What is a example of enlightenment?

An example of enlightenment is when you become educated about a particular course of study or a particular religion. An example of enlightenment was The Age of Enlightenment, a time in Europe during the 17th and 18th century considered an intellectual movement driven by reason.
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How do you live an enlightened life?

So, live better with less.
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Living a simple life and how to follow the path to have an enlightened life:
  1. Find peace within yourself. You may be dissatisfied with your job, your home, your financial position, your spouse, children and many other things. ...
  2. Relax. Well, it can be hectic out there. ...
  3. Show gratitude. ...
  4. Self-confidence.
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How do you achieve nirvana or enlightenment?

Achieving Nirvana
  1. Life is suffering.
  2. This suffering is caused by ignorance of the true nature of the universe.
  3. You can only end this suffering by overcoming ignorance and attachment to earthly things.
  4. You can overcome ignorance and attachment by following the Noble Eightfold Path.
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What were 3 Results of the Enlightenment?

The Enlightenment helped combat the excesses of the church, establish science as a source of knowledge, and defend human rights against tyranny. It also gave us modern schooling, medicine, republics, representative democracy, and much more.
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What is the highest level of Zen?

Three of the highest ranks are shike ("Zen master" (of the training hall)), rekijō and tokujūshoku (kancō, abbot).
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What does it mean to become enlightened?

Definition of enlightened

1 : freed from ignorance and misinformation an enlightened people an enlightened time. 2 : based on full comprehension of the problems involved issued an enlightened ruling.
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