Table of Contents for Root Meanings
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Revision: 25 Jun 2025
Enlightenment
- Abiding as awakeness.
- Abiding as Divinity/God/Source.
- Abiding as THE SUPREME.
- Cessation of thoughts about unreality.
- Radical engagement with the here and now.
- The absence of fixed ideas, including beliefs, judgments, and identities.
- Enlightenment is characterized by the transcendence of confusion, doubt, and identification.
- In enlightenment, one operates beyond the small self.
- In enlightenment, there is gnosis of Truth.
- In enlightenment, there is profound awareness of oneness.
- In enlightenment, there is profound clarity regarding reality and truth.
- In enlightenment, there is profound clarity regarding the nature of being and creation.
- In enlightenment, there is profound clarity regarding THE SUPREME.
- In Supreme Enlightenment, all fear is transcended.
- In Supreme Enlightenment, one operates beyond all self, including the one Self.
- In Supreme Enlightenment, there is total clarity regarding the impossibility of ego.
- In Supreme Enlightenment, there is total clarity regarding the impossibility of separation.
- In Supreme Enlightenment, there is total clarity regarding the nonexistence of a separate self.
- Supreme Enlightenment is the unwavering realization that all is THE SUPREME, that everyone and everything is THE SUPREME.
- Supreme Enlightenment is the direct knowing of THE SUPREME, which is equally abiding as THE SUPREME.
- The world is enlightened if and only if, and to the degree that, you are abiding as YOU.
- The world is enlightened if and only if, and to the degree that, you are realized as THE SUPREME.
- Apex enlightenment transcends all ideas.
- Apex enlightenment is beyond the reach of meditation.
- The culmination of the path of sourcing is apex enlightenment.
Markers of enlightenment:
- Direct knowing / gnosis (beyond belief and experience)
- Discernment of Truth
- Ease/effortlessness
- Infinitization (realizing that all is infinite)
- Profound and persistent absence of againstness and resistance
- Profound and persistent bliss
- Profound and persistent peace
- Profound and persistent clarity
- Profound and persistent fearlessness
- Profound and persistent openness
- Profound and persistent presence
- Profound and persistent spontaneity
- Realization beyond cause and effect
Sayings:
- “Daily life is a path of enlightenment.”
- “Enlightenment is what is.”
- “Enlightenment takes many forms. Ultimately, enlightenment takes all forms. All forms are forms of enlightenment.”
- “Ideas of enlightenment are not enlightenment.”
- “One who is enlightened has the capacity to discern Truth and act accordingly.”
- “Since, in reality, enlightenment is uninterrupted, there is no before enlightenment and there is no after enlightenment.”
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