enlightenment - Concepts

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Concepts

Zizai - The Buddhist concept of spiritual freedom and sovereign ease — being unobstructed, self-possessed, and at liberty within one's own mind.
Nirvana - The Buddhist goal of liberation — the extinguishing of craving, aversion, and delusion that ends suffering and the cycle of rebirth.
Vimutti - The Buddhist concept of liberation — the release of the mind from defilements, craving, and bondage to suffering.
Sapere Aude - The Latin phrase meaning 'dare to know' - courage to use one's own understanding.
Allegory of the Cave - Plato's metaphor illustrating the journey from ignorance to enlightenment.
Satori - The Zen Buddhist concept of sudden enlightenment or awakening to true nature.