Guest guest Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 I am hesitating a little using the word enlightenment, but from the way I see it has been used in this thread: >From observation I believe we think of both the unchanging and the changing as person. If with enlightenment the changing is no longer identified as a part of the person (= ourself )., the logic would bring us to: If there no sense of loss with this identification going nothing has changed. So in this context enlightenment is personal like an unbroken thread. And even when knowing nothing but the surface of a well, how many will say the personal is gone when knowing the source, Perhaps quite the opposite I have seen described many times, the sense of loss may come from an 'after' situation. Returning to the daily duties, with a 'lost' ego, personality slowly falling into place creating the experience of : There was no person. If this development is not part of the question raised, then If there also is a before or immediate situation as mentioned above ( like a broken thread) we might say that for the individual, as there clearly is two different experiences, enlightenment is personal also in the sense of personal possibilities . But returning to the question, if it is a final enlightenment and that is not an experience, can it be either? Still did not Ramana have observations of before and after? Where does that leave us ? Personally I would say with personal and neither : ) Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 _____ [] On Behalf Of Alan Friday, April 21, 2006 5:55 AM Re: Is Enlightenment Personal? 3 questions I am hesitating a little using the word enlightenment, but from the way I see it has been used in this thread: >From observation I believe we think of both the unchanging and the changing as person. Snip But returning to the question, if it is a final enlightenment and that is not an experience, can it be either? Still did not Ramana have observations of before and after? Where does that leave us ? Personally I would say with personal and neither : ) Alan The unchanging and the unchanging, the permanent and the impermanent - OM TAT SAT Love and peace, michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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