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You are right! Each mind has its own concept of "Enlightenment." My experience is that when we go beyond our mind, that profound experience is identical to others, hence absolute truth, i.e., "enlightenment." Buddha's words for this are, "Who has insight into my Dhamma sees me." Eckhart Tolle quoted, "The secret to finding the deeper level in the other is finding the deeper level in yourself; without finding it in yourself, you cannot see it in the other." 🙏

@@explorewithin3595 I thank you for your gracious response.. To be a bit clearer (hopefully).. There is no enlightenment aside from ones own enlightenment. I'm not saying everyone has there own "concept" of enlightenment (which is true), I'm saying there is no objective state or condition called "enlightenment." If you try to ask, "Is Rupert's enlightenment the same as Shakyamuni Buddha's" that question itself is already making enlightenment into a concept or an objective "thing" or state - which will then be compared to some other objective "thing or state. Enlightenment, Nirvana, Moksha, Allah, God, Brahman, Shiva, nonduality etc.. these are various names for what exists as the nature of YOUR OWN individual experience. They don't exist "out there" and so cannot be compared. I cannot share or compare my "enlightenment" with yours anymore than I can share my direct experiencing with you. There is nothing really "there" to share or compare to. This is a subtle but important topic to understand because we easily make enlightenment into an object, "objective state" or a concept, and this is the base conflict that the world is filled with called "samsara" or "duality." We really cant "become" enlightened because we are already "enlightenment" (the nature of "me" and I am not exactly you. Some people "think" this is saying something against "oneness" but that is not correct. We have to go beyond these concepts. ❤🙏

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How do you know it was the same as the Buddha’s? A truly enlightened/awakened person would never claim such a thing. After who is claiming? It can only be the ego.

@@brandankelly4069 I read a description of his experience years ago and it was very similar in many ways.

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True, the enlightenment cannot be personal. You may like Rupert's video "What is Enlightenment? How can it happen for me?" ua-cam.com/video/aDAFJEMDT_s/v-deo.htmlsi=D7aIFDFclax3dNL_

Thank you very much, this explanation is very helpful and addresses a kind of disconnect I was feeling about the use of the word "enlightenment" in non-duality circles. Buddhist teachings tend to speak of enlightenment for arahats only. That's why, I think, today's non-duality teachers insist that everything begins when we realize our nature, as when we enter the stream, the first step towards enlightenment in Buddhism.

Thanks! In Buddha's teaching, non-duality begins when one becomes a stream-winner rather than a stream-enterer. The word "Samma" used in Buddha's eightfold path means non-dual, i.e., non-dual view, rather than right view as the first step of the eightfold path.

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Thank you for your contribution. I agree that Jesus appeared as the message/messenger; the only way for many to join the Father is through his message. Please see my work-in-progress at www.ancientpath.org/items

@@explorewithin3595 "1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." John 1 JESUS CRIST is GOD.

@@dancf Perfect! The message or the messenger!

@@NTHSAGE "16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. " John 3

Thank you for commenting and giving your perspective!

@@explorewithin3595 It wasn't a perspective! It was two questions and an exclamation!

The Buddha's teaching is for self-realization without following a Guru. After all, what matters is being free from chaos and miseries!

Thank you for commenting and giving your perspective! The Buddha's teaching is for self-realization without following a Guru.

Thank you!