Monday, March 23, 2009

Redefining enlightenment for our time

The Evolution of Enlightenment

The Guru and the Pandit
Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen in Dialogue


Andrew Cohen -- "The goal now, as audacious as it sounds, is not merely to transcend the world but to transform the world, to become an agent of the evolutionary impulse itself .... awakening to the truth of who we are, and then daring to allow ourselves to experience the urgency to make it manifest in this world with all of our being."

"I think .... that the traditional definition of enlightenment may not actually be able to meet the needs of the evolving world in the time in which we are living."

Ken Wilber -- ".... the only way you can permanently and fully realize emptiness is if you transform, evolve, or develop your vehicle in the world of form."

"So we have to have a radical embrace of the world of samsara as the vehicle and expression of nirvana itself."

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