Considerations

Enlightenment is
and those who know don't say, and those who say don't know, so I must be the latter, a sensory state of enhanced or more complete perception, by the individual in any given present circumstance.

It does not need intellectual specialization or superior attributes of any type. It does not require information such as is found in religious or spiritual teachings.

Enlightenment in and of itself, does not necessarily give the individual knowledge of the world, and especially human created states and the complications which derive thereof, such as power, wealth, politics or art.

Enlightenment theoretically may be achieved by anyone, and does not necessarily require prerequisites such as education, special knowledge or religion. However training offered by various groups in the vein of Buddhism or Zen may be helpful.

Enlightenment does not require the traditional Buddhist posture, although it may require relaxation and the absence of all stress.

For all of what is not necessary, Enlightenment is a very very difficult state to achieve. To achieve a state of Enlightenment may require the practice of the absence of mind, which in actuality means the absence of the use of the memory as thinking, termed Present-time Intellection.

Enlightenment usually requires slow deep breathing, and the absence of thinking or blank mind. This in itself is the difficulty of achieving the state of Enlightenment. Mental activity as thinking is a distraction to the complete sensory experience of present reality.

When one nears the state of Enlightenment, thinking becomes an obnoxious racket in the head, like a voice over a megaphone which never shuts up. The state of Enlightenment is so beatific that thinking and what is necessary for it, becomes completely superfluous, unnecessary and undesirable.

The state of Enlightenment can come suddenly without much training or may require years of practice. The state once achieved may last only a few seconds or any period of time longer as months or years. For some the state once achieved and lost may become a negative, since ordinary life may seem drab and mundane akin to coming down from a drug high.

Accompanying the state of beatific experience may come the realization or conceptual experience, that all reality is a single unified entity or organism, that is usually described as 'Oneness or The One'. In this state of consciousness, there is no sense of opposites or opposition, but all a unified whole.

The actual state of Enlightenment is not really describable, but is five senses sensory experience. This state where all is unified as a single manifestation, is absent comparative states outside itself, which would be helpful in its description.

Also accompanying this state may come a superb sensory feeling of Love and contentment. This sensory manifestation is apropos to what is called Natural Affection, which is the sensory experience absent intellectual duality and finite definition, or associational value and consequence. which is defined as Emotion.

In the state of Enlightenment one just does things when the urge arises without really thinking about automatically.

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