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This happened to me once. It is really imposible to explain.
I think in en it is called "zatori" and is basically a little glimpse of liberation, a moment of brightness.
I do remember after feeling it it all felt...dull, and kinda cloudy.
Lifes weird
Have you have experienced the same feelings?
I see it as a matter of terminology. Many people think once you hit enlightenment then that's it, no where else to go, everything is done. I hardly believe that is true. It is the beginning of living in Freedom and exploring the ever-changing world within that freedom. We don't stop growing at enlightenment. We are simply free from the illusion of a separate self.Hello
I have a question that has been bothering me.
Can you attain 'self-realization' or 'enlightenment' for a brief period or is it a once you have it you can't lose it kind of thing?
This was beautifully put. I agree with how you put the 7 points. The only thing I will stress in this from experience, is that it is good to desire, but the seeking should be for illumination and not not necessary something you have told yourself to expect. It is as you say a process of constant surrender, and part of that surrender is to simple allow what is to be given, to be given. If you are looking for something you expect, then you are not open to receive. If any expectation, it should be that God will meet you as you surrender.
To describe it in my words as I have experienced this, what occurs as that the object of this desire, call it heaven, call it God, dissolves into you. It is no longer you reaching, communing, listening, learning from God, but there is nothing rising in the mind any more, and you just open your eyes and see. You are finished meditating, but not in a returning to the seeker who started meditation, but awakened through meditation into the world, into reality. Every flame of the candles are a living soul, air generates light in every molecule, a bird sings and there is life in everything, silence surrounds all activity, etc.
I have asked myself is there a time when you wouldn't need to meditate anymore. I think this answers this.
I would agree with this within any tradition. I have a saying I came up with not long ago where I said, "Theology is our mind's last-ditch effort to understand God before we fail, and do". Intellectual models of reality are academic and interesting, but fail to take us to realization. There has to be Light within the words.
It truly is a process of overcoming fear. Often, what is felt exposed is so immense we hide ourselves from it in one way or another. But it is in emptying ourselves in trust into that that we pass beyond that fear into Truth.
I would say it is the same wetness experienced that is in every wave, but to have the mind embraced by That fully, is what is that Realization.
I agree. But as you said, that glimpse, that opening, is a brilliant call.
Thank you ratikala :namaste:
Yes, this makes sense to me. I like the analogy you give. It describes the feeling well... the 'realising the true brilliance of the sun' isn't just seeing the light of it but also the feeling of warmth that suddenly enshrouds you.
detatching metaphoricaly , :namaste in truth what one is doing is attatcing importance to a dharmic veiw of things and detatching from the worldly conception of self importance , this does not mean detatchng from ones family responcibilities it actualy gives one the insight to be a better wife , a better mother ,and a better human being .
do not worry you will lose nothing that is not replaced by something far more valuable to yourself and to your family , when you find the answers you are seeking you will loose only the negative emotional attatchments to the ideas and expectations of family and family responcibilities , what you will gain is the clear mindedness to be a better parent and the deepest most meaningfull love for all family and freinds ,it is in a way attatchment to our ignorance , we fear the concequences of change so we remain attatched to the position we are in , yet nothing remains static , once one has become interested to find god , once one has realised his existance , it is only a natural progression to wish to further that understanding , but our fear of the unknown allways trys to hold us back , it tries to throw shadows of doubt
one has to remember that this fear is so attatched to its present position that it will put many seemingly convincing arguements in your path , but once one has experienced that briliance that lays beyond , one will always be drawn to experience and understand that expansiveness again . 
