The Importance of Being Enlightened

When the great doctor, D.T. Suzuki was asked what is it like to be enlightened, he said it's just like ordinary everyday experience except about two inches off the ground. The state of mystical illumination may in its sudden onset be accompanied by a sensation of tremendous luminescence and transparency. When you don't cling to it, when you have no longer a hostile attitude to the world because you know the world is you, it is. You see, in the history of philosophy and poetry and art, we always find the interchange of two personality types which I call prickles and goo.