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Is this enlightenment?

Hi
This is my first time asking a

I've been reading, thinking, and meditating on Buddhist books for the past few years
Also, the other day, when I was meditating, I had an experience that was hard to express

It's hard to put into words, but it's a sense of unity, an experience where everything is felt as one, and the self disappeared, or rather lost its outline

After that, for less than an hour, I continued to feel something like cohesion, and eventually my normal feeling returned

After that, in my life, the feeling of disgusting didn't go away at all

In the first place, aren't you aware when you're asking this question?
Is awareness of enlightenment clear?
Isn't this indescribable experience enlightenment?

4 Zen Responses

You'd like to say enlightenment, but what about now?

Hello. I'm “Joe Gori Ani,” a temporary employee from the French world and a member of the “Satranger” (Satranger) who is on the side of justice.
You can tell for yourself whether you've realized it or not.
Even if you think “Oh, this is Satori,” the enlightenment effect ends there if you fight, get angry over trivial matters, or get depressed in your later life. Apparently, you'll find out later that wasn't enlightenment, so it's okay if you don't mind until then.
In Zen Buddhism, such a so-called “enlightenment experience” is not a goal, but rather an entrance. Enlightenment is a fleeting experience, so obvious and useless. I'll finish by bragging about my experience. This is where “unthinking” begins. If you meditate or meditate, your active consciousness will drop and you will stop watching. Then it only looks like the facts from before the thought occurred. Unthinkable. You could call it a non-thinking mind. Once there, people who have only been thinking until now feel very refreshed. However, this is where they finally stood at the beginning of their training. It's something that even a boy can't get there easily, so it's great.
When a religious philosopher named Fukuoka Masanobu was young, he experienced what is called enlightenment. However, after that, I eventually lost sight of that heart due to analytical thinking and philosophical thinking. It is described as “losing sight of God.”
Even if you catch a glimpse of the state of enlightenment, there are times when you grasp it, and eventually return to the original state by establishing “me,” “subjectivity,” and “me” that I have enlightened. Enlightenment is a view without “me,” and in order to be even more thorough, in Zen, they say things like ascetic practices after enlightenment, thorough implementation of Daigo, immortal marks (mosshoseki), etc., and they also throw away the self that holds enlightenment, and thoroughly focus on the content of enlightenment. My self and the law are not separate; they become the law itself. “I realized” means I brushed my teeth a week ago! It's like exhaling a smelly breath while saying that. The question is how it is now. Today is today. This isn't the day I realized it anymore. Life continued even after I realized that Buddha was a Dogen Zenji. The fact that a settlement is made and enrollment is over is something for the time being.
Don't fall into one-off experientialism.
There are people in both the Spi family and Zen who only value enlightenment “experiences,” but the question is what is going on now. Therefore, in Zen Buddhism, we value “proof” rather than enlightenment as a temporary experience.

Isn't it meditation

 If the “sense of unity” between the world and oneself has come out instead of the world or self disappearing (impermanence, selfishness), then isn't it better to meditate rather than enlightenment?
When the mind is concentrated and a sense of unity with the world is created, since there is no distinction between oneself and others, a heart of compassion is born. This is a precious and great kindness that cannot easily be born in a normal mind. In Buddhism, they even say that a heart of compassion doesn't come naturally if you don't go out of your way to create it.
I hope they will continue to work hard to create this heart.
Enlightenment is that when you concentrate and observe something, you can see the world, or rather, the birth and death of every moment when all the phenomena you thought were firm disappear, or are born and born, and you can understand impermanence. Even the self I am observing can be seen disappearing and disappearing, or being born, and I can understand selflessness.
That is the heart of wisdom, and this is also a great heart. Please try your best here too. My book “The Four Stages of Enlightenment” (sanga) may be useful.

Wisdom and good fortune

Nick

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

There are so many people who misunderstand the experience of emptiness in meditation and meditation as enlightenment.

Also, there are many misunderstandings that take things such as recklessness or far-fetched arguments as enlightenment.

The trifecta of emptiness, or equivalence, aims to understand “sky” in terms of actual quantity (intuition) rather than ratio (inference), and the purpose is to destroy afflictions and intellectual disabilities as barriers that hinder enlightenment.

Simply put, not only do you think with your head, but even without thinking with your head, you are first required to eliminate worries by aiming for a state of understanding the “sky,” and the practice of making use of experiential understanding of the sky (hindsight) in meditation/meditation, and making use of experiential understanding of the sky (hindsight) after getting out of meditation/meditation.

To be more detailed, we become trapped by something that inevitably appears, as if it were actually formed by itself as an independent entity. It is a place where worries arise due to being trapped by that entity.

This is because we learn and advance in Buddhism, and in particular, by understanding the state of “good fortune and emptiness,” although it is possible to understand “oh, nothing is established as an entity in every manifestation,” ignorance (fundamental ignorance) that cannot be easily understood has been suppressed at the root of that heart, and it has become difficult to easily exterminate that ignorance by understanding only the mind.

It is necessary to exterminate it little by little while also passing through the intuitive experience of emptiness in meditation and meditation.

Furthermore, it is essential to practice convenience and merit in the real world (through hindsight) while understanding emptiness.

Along with “wisdom” to understand emptiness, by accumulating two resources called “fuku,” which is convenience and merit based on that wisdom, through Buddhism, we eventually want to reach true enlightenment by eradicating afflictions and intellectual disabilities.

Let's work hard together.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

I read it.
When it comes to difficult things, I think the truth applies to what Mori Shonin said.

But even if you realize it, it would be a waste of the original Kiami again.

If you have reached such a point, please do your best from now on so that you can continue to be in such a situation.
Also, please do altruism to people around you and people you have relationships with from there.

On the other hand, until now it's been an introduction, and now I'll get into the main subject.