Jeff Vander Clute

Definition: Enlightenment

by | Oct 4, 2022 | Root Meanings (Book) | 0 comments

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General notes:

  • Root Meanings is a work in progress that will continue to emerge and evolve until the Mind of minds is absolutely clear. The definitions below are subject to evolution.
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Revision: 27 Sep 2023

Enlightenment

  • Abiding as THE SUPREME.
  • Realization that everyone and everything is THE SUPREME.
  • Realization that everyone and everything is the Supreme YOU.
  • Recognition of always being THE SUPREME.
  • Enlightenment is known directly, in immediacy, through gnosis.
  • Enlightenment is recognized by capacities that operate beyond self.
  • Enlightenment is transcendent of confusion, dreaming, doubt, ego, and fear.
  • Supreme Enlightenment is transcendent of identification.
  • Supreme Enlightenment is transcendent of consciousness, creation, and mind, while also including these.
  • In enlightenment, there is absolute clarity regarding the nature of being and creation.
  • In enlightenment, there is absolute clarity regarding the nature of oneness.
  • In enlightenment, there is absolute clarity regarding the nature of reality and truth.
  • In enlightenment, there is absolute clarity regarding the nature of THE SUPREME.
  • In enlightenment, there is absolute clarity regarding the impossibility of ego.
  • In enlightenment, there is absolute clarity regarding the impossibility of separation.
  • In enlightenment, there is absolute clarity regarding the nonexistence of a separate self.
  • In enlightenment, there is gnosis of THE SUPREME.
  • In enlightenment, there is profound awareness of oneness.
  • The world is enlightened if and only if you are enlightened, i.e., if and only if you are realized as THE SUPREME, as the Supreme YOU.
  • The world is enlightened exactly to the extent that you are enlightened, i.e., exactly to the extent that you are realized as THE SUPREME, as the Supreme YOU.

Markers of enlightenment:

  • Immediate knowing (beyond belief and experience)
  • Knowing that all is THE SUPREME
  • Knowing that all is the Infinite, and that finitude is unreal
  • Absolute bliss
  • Absolute calmness
  • Absolute clarity
  • Absolute fearlessness
  • Absolute nonagainstness
  • Absolute openness
  • Absolute peacefulness
  • Absolute spontaneity
  • Pure presence

Sayings:

  • “Ideas of enlightenment are not enlightenment.”
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