What are enlightened beings like?

The enlightened person is insightful and open-minded. He is able to see the world with great clarity, without attachment to preconceived ideas about people, places, and things.

Has anyone else become enlightened?

No one has attained Enlightenment through Zen nor meditation in human history. Buddha himself never claimed he was enlightened through meditation. But in human history, only one or two men had the evidence that they could perceive everything in the world and could tell the Truth.

How many lamas are there?

This is a list of Dalai Lamas of Tibet. There have been 14 recognised incarnations of the Dalai Lama….List of Dalai Lamas.

Dalai Lama of as ruler of Tibet
First monarch	5th Dalai Lama (temporal ruler)
Last monarch	14th Dalai Lama (temporal ruler)
Formation	1642

Does Enlightenment make you happy?

But enlightenment does not make you permanently happy, let alone ecstatic. Instead, it is a state that incorporates all human emotions and qualities: love and hate, desire and fear, wisdom and ignorance. “The ability to hold opposites, emotional opposites, at the same time is really what we’re after.”.

Does Enlightenment transform you into a saint?

Mike laughed and seemed to relax (which of course was my insidious intent). Grilling me about my attitudes toward mysticism, he compulsively completed my sentences for me. I said that when I first heard about enlightenment, my impression was that it changes your entire personality, transforming you into… “A saint,” Mike said. Yes, I continued.

Can meditation induce the supreme state of Enlightenment?

Wright explores the possibility that meditation can induce powerful mystical states, including the supreme state known as enlightenment. I ventured into this territory in my 2003 book Rational Mysticism. I interviewed people with both scholarly and personal knowledge of mystical experiences.