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the moment you realize the cage was unlocked the whole time.
means A state of deep understanding or spiritual awakening, or the act of giving someone clarity by freeing them from ignorance.
from From the verb 'enlighten,' built on Old English 'lihtan,' to shine or give light — the same root that glows in 'light' itself. The prefix 'en-' (from Latin via French, meaning 'to put into' or 'cause to be') turns it into 'to fill with light.' So to be enlightened was literally to be illuminated, the dark room of the mind suddenly lit. By the 18th century the word was claimed by a whole intellectual era — the Enlightenment — as Europe declared itself newly able to see, and translators borrowed it again to render the Buddhist 'bodhi,' the awakening under the tree.
- buddhist term
- Bodhi literally means awakening, not arriving
- the era
- 18th-century thinkers nearly got beheaded for reason
- zen warning
- Kill the Buddha if you meet him
- brain scan
- Meditating monks show measurable gamma wave spikes
- the paradox
- Chasing it is the surest way to miss
age of enlightenment — intellectual movement in 17th-18th century europe emphasizing reason, science, and individual rights
buddha's enlightenment — siddhartha gautama's spiritual awakening under the bodhi tree in bodh gaya, india, around 500 bce