enlightenment

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Related topics: Buddhism, Hinduism

en·light·en·ment /ɪnˈlaɪtnmənt/ noun [uncountableU]

1 formalUNDERSTAND when you understand something clearly, or when you help someone do this 领悟；启发，开导

Isabel looked to Ron for enlightenment.

伊莎贝尔希望得到罗恩的启发。

2 RRBRRHthe final stage reached in the Buddhist and Hindu religions when you no longer suffer or feel desire and you are at peace with the universe 〔佛教和印度教的〕觉悟，般若〔指摆脱苦难或欲望，与天地万物和平相处的最终境界〕

the quest for spiritual enlightenment

对心灵觉悟的追求

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enlightenment• Three Levels on which rationality has practical significance may be distinguished, which I shall call groundedness, enlightenment and emancipation.• The renaissance was not destined to endure; predictably, it led to no enlightenment.• In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved.• In this, like both Priest and Sister My Sister, it functions as a parable of enlightenment and individualism.• The beginning of my real enlightenment was in the late sixties.• Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment.• It is the story of the failures of one generation written for the enlightenment of a subsequent generation.

spiritual enlightenment• Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment.• I listened to their tales of spiritual enlightenment, past lives, cosmic futures.• How did these madmen get the reputation in the West for possessing vast spiritual enlightenment?

Enlightenmentn /ɪnˈlaɪtnmənt/

nthe Enlightenment SHa period in the eighteenth century when many writers and scientists believed that science and knowledge, not religion, could improve people's lives

en·light·en·ment nounEnlightenmentn

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