A lot of writing previously posted on this website has been removed. Excessive thinking and writing exchanges about this topic reminds me of a dog that chases its own tail and never catches it. The dog thinks its own tail is a great prize. He enjoys chasing it. Maybe some day, he will obtain that prize. He is so ignorant he does not realize that the tail being chased is not separate from himself. So endless circular tail-chasing continues. Around and around the dog goes. But when he stops? Nobody knows. Such is the plight of those who endlessly chase enlightenment.  

What is enlightenment and your definition of it?

"The spontaneous cognition to be prior to "Nothing and All". Entirely unprepared, in spite of and not because of the search for cognition. It is the revelation of the "Eternal Now". The absence of the "me", and thus the absence of all concepts, of separation or union, birth and death, God and world, coming and going, etc."

                                                                                    -  Karl Renz

 The statement above is very clear. Read more like this in the samadhi related links on this webiste.

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