Sentence examples for gradual enlightenment from inspiring English sources

In pronouncing this radical doctrine of sudden enlightenment, Hui-neng rejected all traditional Buddhist concepts, works, and practices and created a wide schism between his Southern school and the Northern school led by Shen-hsiu, who had advocated gradual enlightenment.

A dandruff-shampoo model and the bellybutton of a Hello Kitty doll will play crucial roles in Roger's (if not the audience's) gradual enlightenment; if only the voice in his head would stop telling him what to do.

But as a wife who turns gradual enlightenment into what may just represent her character's best chance of escape, Ms. Kendal's perpetual good cheer takes its place among the funniest, and smartest, coping mechanisms of any play in town.

According to the Sōtō school, the meditational practice, when it is seen as a process of discovery, is a deepening process of becoming aware of the original enlightenment with an expansion of its corresponding experiential correlates and horizons, and it is for this reason called the school of "gradual enlightenment" or "silent illumination".

Not only do buddhas appear at more or less regular intervals, but the final appearance of any buddha is the culmination of a whole series of previous lives, characterized by gradual advancement toward enlightenment.

One gradual effect of the Enlightenment was to tamp down the fires of Hell and sweep away the ashes, allowing us to bask in the rational coolness that ensued.

This incremental nature of knowledge makes ample room for the traditional Mahāyāna teachings of the gradated bodhisattva path whereby one moves from the aspiration for enlightenment to the gradual realization of enlightenment.

Incidentally, developments in Chinese Buddhist thought linked with the Platform Sūtra would arrive at precisely such a conclusion: that enlightenment is not a gradual but an instantaneous process.

It's all because of the Enlightenment, he argues, and the gradual spread of the problem-solving mentality that finds its fullest expression in science.

What to us came as an enlightenment, to her was the gradual diminution of a shared life while she watched his expression of himself removed with his throat and his tongue until it was reduced to the written word, his most intimate self shared with a computer.

But the growth of humanitarian ideals during the Enlightenment and afterward led to the gradual abandonment of corporal punishment, and by the later 20th century it had been almost entirely replaced by imprisonment or other nonviolent penalties.