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Quote:enlightenment being the highest form of mental functioning.
Enlightenment has nothing to do with mental functioning. Bliss isn't some sort of sensory experience, but is remaining established in the natural state of Being.
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I claim that it is a sensory experience.
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This quote from my Master might clarify concepts:
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I understand the metaphor of bubbles. I have this experience while meditating. I can cease to identify with thoughts and they dissolve. What I don't agree with is that between those "thoughts" - bubbles - I have no-thought. I see it as an experience, a sensation. This experience is still thinking. I define emotions and everything that is in my conciousness as thoughts.
Bliss is a thought.
I imagine the thoughtless state, Being, as something totally different from anykind of experience. But the experience all the eastern philosophies talk about I see as something that happens with me when I'm watching a good movie or listen to some beatiful music or contemplate a magnificent scenery in nature. There are no "bubbles" appearing in my mind, there are no connected thoughts. I am simply being, absorbing the surrounding. But there is nothing mystical about it, I am still there, the thought is still there.