Andy Puddicombe, founder of the meditation app Headspace, shares the answer to "What is enlightenment?" And guess what? It's more simple than you think. On a recent episode of Life Will Be the Death ...

In the late 1960s, college students around the world began meditating in search of enlightenment. What if, more than 50 years later, they are finding what they were looking for? What is enlightenment?

The Buddha, a revered spiritual figure, once proclaimed that enlightenment is the end of suffering. This profound statement has been a source of intrigue and contemplation for many, leading to many ...

Most people look upon enlightenment—whatever the term means to them—as remote, exotic, and unattainable without extreme effort. Enlightenment is the state a Tibetan Buddhist monk may reach after ...

(The Conversation) — The Therigatha, a collection of poems written in Pāli by Buddhist nuns, reveals that women’s enlightenment may not necessarily require renunciation of domestic life. (The ...

There is no doubt that human beings are intrinsically flawed. Our nature is fickle and filled with contradictions. We strive to be altruistic and caring of our fellow humans, but at the same time, we ...

Bodhi Day is a Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day Siddhartha Gautama attained awakening or enlightenment and became the Buddha 2,600 years ago. Bodhi Day is typically celebrated in the ...

Long-Term Meditation and Enlightenment If we assume that enlightenment is a real, distinct, permanent fifth state of consciousness that results from long-term meditation, then we should be able to ...

Images of Buddha’s enlightenment often portray him sitting alone under the bodhi tree, his body emaciated from fasting. Some depictions show the Buddha’s right hand pointing down, asking the earth ...