The scene reminded him of a depiction of the supreme enlightenment of Nirvana, in which Buddha lies in the center of the ten great disciples.
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.
Delusions such as hatred, greed, and ignorance are not an intrinsic part of the mind... they can be completely eliminated and we will experience the supreme happiness of full enlightenment.
Most of the yoga on the menu at your local studio or gym is a form of hatha ("ha" = sun, "tha" = moon) yoga, whose goal is to harmonize and channel opposing forces — positive/negative, yin/yang, male/female — in the body in order to achieve yoga, union of the self with the divine (supreme consciousness), otherwise known as enlightenment.
The "supreme awakening" is classically called enlightenment.
In Buddhism, true enlightenment comes from cherishing others and viewing others as supreme, above ourselves.
Some believe the bubbly Lin is a buddhisattiva, a being emanating love and compassion who has attained a level of enlightenment between common human understanding and the possession of supreme knowledge.
He was a supreme artist: highly disciplined with a baroque imagination, a deep engagement with European enlightenment philosophers, especially Spinoza, and a powerful sense of his own Jewish background.
The two Enlightenments, Israel suggests, divided on the question of whether reason reigned supreme in human affairs, as the Radicals insisted, or whether reason had to be limited by faith and tradition – the view of the mainstream.
Spinoza's denial, on the basis of strict philosophical reasoning, of the existence of a transcendent supreme being, his identification of God with nature, gives strong impetus to the strands of atheism and naturalism that thread through Enlightenment philosophy.
Any enlightenment appreciated".
