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	What Enlightenment is Not

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2-21-2008 6:11 PM

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Dennis Waite has written a new book: Enlightenment: The Path Through the Jungle: a criticism of non-traditional teaching methods in advaita.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0c0f8855-1bc2-4c61-949b-5520ebb4d731/501B11FC-0A3C-405D-99D8-15CC4575C5A2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment_not.htm" href="http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment_not.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.advaita.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment_not.htm"> Enlightenment has nothing to do
        with 'merging with the Self' or
‘becoming one with God’. In reality, we are already
the Self so that these expressions could have no meaning. Nor
is it a 'feeling of unity'.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment_not.htm">Enlightenment is not about 'experiencing
        the Self' - otherwise everyone would be enlightened.
        It is not about experience at all, it is about self-knowledge
        - the direct knowledge that you are already that which
        you seek .</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment_not.htm"> Nor is enlightenment itself an
        experience - experiences come and go. Enlightenment is
        not temporary - once it happens, that is it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment_not.htm"> Enlightenment is not a 'state' – these
        also come and go.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment_not.htm">It is true that you cannot be
‘partly’ enlightened – you either are or you
are not – but the removal of self-ignorance can certainly
be gradual.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment_not.htm">There is much confusion about 'who' it is that gains
        enlightenment. Clearly the non-dual Self, brahman, cannot
        become enlightened and yet the ultimate truth is that
        there is no separate entity, no satyam ‘ego’ or
        'person'.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/501B11FC-0A3C-405D-99D8-15CC4575C5A2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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