The Ultimate Cure: Enlightenment in Daily Life

Enlightenment has often been spoken of as the "ultimate cure" for human suffering. Yet what does it mean to be enlightened? D. T. Suzuki, the scholar who did so much to introduce Zen to the West, defined it this way: "Enlightenment is the thunder-and lightning discovery that the universe and oneself are not remote and apart, but an intimate, palpitating Whole."