You and existence meet and merge for a moment.Īnd for the first time the seed, the thirst and longing, for enlightenment, the meeting between you and existence, will grow in your heart. There is a gap, a silence and emptiness, where there is not thought between you and existence. The ordinary ego is still present at the first stage of enlightenment, but you experience for a short while that there is something beyond the ego.
The first stage of enlightenment is when, for the first time, for a single moment the mind is not functioning. The first stage of enlightenment is short glimpse from faraway of the whole. “These are the three stages of enlightenment, the three glimpses of satori. “Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze, more universal than Confucius? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno? Did he express grander truths than Cicero? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler’s or Newton’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare, the greatest of the human race?”
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