When you attain enlightenment, when some sudden
change of mental state comes to you-- happens to you-- even that experience is
not true enlightenment. You will see something, or realize something, in terms
of consciousness, but that means you saw something, that's all. It may not be
yours. You saw something there, something beautiful. That is the experience,
that's all. It is a true experience, but that is not enough. We should obtain
the truth. We should become one with the truth. That is taking refuge in Buddha
or Truth. When we become one with it, there is no communion or
interrelationship because it is just one. That is completely taking refuge in
its true sense. That is the experience we have in our practice. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-06-11 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones,.
