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6/26/2009
Jung on Enlightenment
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That makes a lot of sense.
What I like about Jung's definition is -- it is integrative in nature. Is not trying to reject darkness.
Eckhart Tolle's definition of enlightenment : "Restoration of Sanity".
Buddha's definition (or so it is claimed) : "No Suffering/End of Suffering".
The point at which the full and final collapse of the false-i/ego occurs, delusion ends, and the continuous, beyond-doubt direct experience of the connection with the deepest (shunya) level of life occurs.
Tolle talks of a waxing and waning joy, that has never left him, ever since he found enlightenment. The peace never goes. The joy waxes and wanes. Sadness is also felt by him, when he sees some kind of a serious tragedy somewhere.
He also talks of the end of boredom, loneliness, restlessness, and all such things that make us common-ly human. Tolle can be stuck in traffic or stand in a long que, and not lose his cool.
He also says that the sights and sounds of the world around him became more lucid, and lost their irritating, disturbing flavour, after he found enlightenment.
But the biggest thing --- is the appreciation of the difference between "LIFE" and "life-situation".
The enlightened person can appreciate the difference and know that the difference is not subjective, ambiguous, debatable.
ie. it points to some kind of a multi dimensional existence in which --- one is continuously aware that this is the realm of maya (via continuous direct experience) *YET* functioning as if it is *NOT* maya. And this mode of existence is *NOT* confusing and uncomfortable.
And I'll stop here, before I end up slipping deeper into...as you would have guessed by now...advaita vedanta :-)
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