Thus, the middle path "leads to insight and wisdom, produces calm, knowledge, enlightenment, and nirvāṇa" (Saṃyutta Nikāya, V, 420).
The sun metaphor of illumination — as the source of both being and of knowledge (enlightenment) — befits the universality of the hosshin perfectly.
After all, philosophy is regarded as a flight from our animal natures and into the realm of intellectual activity, knowledge and enlightenment.
"I believe strongly in the power of knowledge and enlightenment and in what books can do, especially for someone who is down and who feels a connection to a story".
O'Hara's liking for institutions follows what he treats as Burke's doctrine of pooled knowledge, though Enlightenment "rationalists" like Condorcet had this thought before Burke gave it a mystical twist.
This year, according to Mamadou Boly, a retired primary school inspector and president of Andal et Pindal (whose name means "knowledge and enlightenment" in Fulfulde), the shepherds' school achieved an 85% success rate, and nearly two-thirds of students went directly into CM2, the final year of primary school.
But neither Duchamp nor Napoleon could have anticipated the degree to which future art, in its museums and gallery spaces, would not only step down from its fusty pedestal as a static source of knowledge and enlightenment, but also merge into immersive, night-hours' mass entertainment.
I do not mean to suggest here that theorizing is the only source of moral knowledge or enlightenment in bioethics.
Because the word spirit is used to reflect a state of knowledge or enlightenment, all long-lived foxes gain supernatural abilities.
It is also disturbing because it shows, how, and where our politicized schools are endorsing ignorance and fear rather than knowledge and enlightenment.
Many have come to associate these symbols with the supposed "Illuminati," a mysterious society apparently belonging to one-percenters whose access to secret knowledge and enlightenment is denied to the rest of the us, forever cloaked in secrecy.
