Sentence examples for acquired enlightenment from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, he collapses the distinction between "acquired enlightenment" (shikaku) and "original enlightenment," where the "acquired" enlightenment means an enlightenment that is realized through the practice of meditation as a means.

His pilgrimage was completed by visits to the most holy spots: Kapilavastu, where the Buddha was born; Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha acquired the supreme enlightenment; Banaras (Varanasi), where the Buddha preached his first sermon; and Kushinagara, where the Buddha entered into the perfect nirvana.

Yet the enlightenment has acquired something of a bad name.

An economist by training who was supposed to contribute a chapter to Dialectic of Enlightenment but never did (Wiggershaus 1994, 313 19), Pollock argued that the state had acquired dominant economic power in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and New Deal America.

Acquired tastes?

The longer you stare, the more information you can acquire, as you can sense the collective enlightenment of thousands of warrior-kings, philandering gallants, Buddha, and Christ all living out karma loop's inside Gorilla Munch's mind.

Even when the outcome was not as beneficent as he hoped, he always followed his own lights -- a mixture of his Quaker-influenced upbringing, Enlightenment rationality and the autodidact's passion for acquiring knowledge.

Any enlightenment appreciated".

The Enlightenment?

The Enlightenment had deceived him.

My brief is Enlightenment.