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A taste of enlightenment?
Has anyone had an experience that brought you to another realm of existence, perhaps a taste of enlightenment?
Walking into the kitchen practicing mindfulness, I suddenly was transported into, what I can best describe as a different realm. Everything became crystal clear and as I looked around at objects, they no longer needed names to identify them. I had extreme wisdom. It was a feeling of complete bliss!! It lasted about 20-30 seconds, and then I was back to the world of stress and suffering! But it gave me motivation to continue practice, because, if this was a taste of what Enlightenment will bring, TAKE ME!!!
Walking into the kitchen practicing mindfulness, I suddenly was transported into, what I can best describe as a different realm. Everything became crystal clear and as I looked around at objects, they no longer needed names to identify them. I had extreme wisdom. It was a feeling of complete bliss!! It lasted about 20-30 seconds, and then I was back to the world of stress and suffering! But it gave me motivation to continue practice, because, if this was a taste of what Enlightenment will bring, TAKE ME!!!
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An advice as a practitioner, I recommend you not getting attached to any kind of experience, don't go to practice wanting to "revive" that experience you had while you were walking into the kitchen.
Oh, also and the most important thing: Tell this experience to your teacher. Maybe it is related to the practice you are doing, maybe your winds are moving and reorganizing and you got this kind of experience, who knows.
But try not to get so speculative with it as to think "is this what a Buddha experience? Is this what I need to attain? Was I a Buddha for 2 seconds?" That is just misleading for your own practice.
Remember what the Buddha said to its disciples: I got to the state I am because I was never contempt with what I had obtained, I always continued on searching. Remember also the mantra of the Heart Sutra: Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond. Hail to the awakening (I'm not so sure about the exact translation tho). Gone; that's because it departed from our natural and common perceptions and understandings, can not be put on words, nor in the limited conventional mind, because it is beyond any kind of experience and/or idea. :P Hope it helps.
As Alfonso has already said, don't become attached to experiences or want to relive them.
They come and go and one shouldn't pay too much attention to them. Just let it go and continue practising. Teachers used to tell me this too when I spoke to them about different experiences I had during meditation or during other practices I was given to do.
I suggest that if you don't already go to a meditation class or Buddhist centre that you have a look to see what's available in your area.
Kind wishes to you,
Dazzle
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I think it's said to be seeing the "son" light (a bit of the enlightenment) while real enlightenment is the "mother light".
Some say we can see this mother light and gain real enlightenment in the bardo of death.
I'm not yet understand it... :S
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Many years ago I had similar experience.
After reading some Zen comics by Chai ZiZhong I gain such "realization beyond words" and start to control the weather literally.
It's like Neo controlling the matrix world.
Stop speculating so much about if it is Rigpa or instantaneous clarity, and all these kind of high words and concepts, let his teachers check him and not by a forum. It could give the wrong idea.
because there is a danger
that
many would jump at him and would say it is not real
and
he would have to prove it but nobody ever be able to prove it to another
since
it is the beginning and not the end
there is a possibility
one would fall into the trap of argument[/quote]
There's no link between someone not believing you and having to prove something. It's not like everyone believed the Buddha.
sorry dear, i am extreamly sorry for the caps lock
do not take it personally, i didn't yell at you or anyone else
what else?
he he he!!
if the mindfulness present now, it is possible to see where the compassion lies
when there is no mindfulness there is no 'highest wisdom' to see anything clearly
not seeing outside and seeing inside it is easy to find where the compassion is
I agree that he shouldn't say that he attained some sort of special wisdom, as it is...unwise. There is no special wisdom. For you to think it's wisdom is to conceptualize it, and to conceptualize it is to make it something that it's not. It just is.
We have to try and look beyond experience, to the 'mechanisms' behind experience. It's the door we came in, and the door we need to use to go out, if you want to. All experience will one day pass. But how did it happen in the first place ? What gave rise to it ? That's Buddhism right there. Now if your mind answers you with a cosmic experience, you just say to yourself, yes, sure, very enjoyable, but that's not the question I asked. And then ask your question again, this time knowing full well that the mind is not going to divulge its deepest secrets just like that.