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Originally Posted by willravel
Enlightenment is kinda subjective, isn't it? How would you characterize or define enlightenment?
I'd like to think that in some ways I'm enlightened like a buddha, but I'm not 100% enlightened. I doubt anyone is. The thing is, I'm using my own subjective meaning of enlightenment, though. Your enlightenment might be completely different.
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Fair enough, Will. A good point as always. But it seems to me that enlightenment is supposed to be...enlightening. It's supposed to raise one's spiritual and psychoemotional awareness to a level where one sheds negative behaviors, thoughts, and urges. If not, then what is enlightenment?
And of course I would agree nobody is really enlightened here, in this world, this plane of existence. But in heaven? Where, I presume, we remember all of the experiences and the lessons we learned from all of our lives that we've lived in world, and we have perspective unavailable to this plane of existence, and God is more directly available for teaching, clarity, and love?
Why not in heaven?