Awakening is the name of the 84th episode from the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It is the eighth episode from the fourth season of the series. It first aired on November 26, 2004 on the American television network UPN. This episode is part one of a three episode arc involving Captain Archer's clandestine journey through planet Vulcan. To follow the full plot, see the othe ...

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• Awakening Enterprise episode - Guest Cast

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The Second Great Awakening was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment. In New England, the renewed interest in religion inspired a wave of social activism. In western New York, the spirit of revival encouraged the emergence of new denominations. It was also one of the influences on the Holiness movement. In the Appalachian region of Kentucky and Tennessee, the revival strengthened the Methodists and the Baptists, and s ...

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• Second Great Awakening - Regional characteristics
• Second Great Awakening - New England
• Second Great Awakening - Appalachia

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Although the Great Awakenings influence and are influenced by religious thought from throughout the world, the cycle of Great Awakenings appear unique to the United States. This could be because the United States is home to many different denominations and sects, while remaining largely Protestant. The lack of a single dominant faith or state-sanctioned religion means new ideas can be spread without having to slowly reform existing institutions from within, or allowing pressures to build up until the existing institutions are violently overt ...

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Great Awakening, Great Awakening - The Pattern of Great Awakenings, Great Awakening - American Great Awakenings, Great Awakening - Other meanings

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Great Awakening

See "Awakening vs Enlightenment."

(See also: Great Awakening, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Great Awakening

See "Awakening vs. Enlightenment."

 (See also: Great Awakening, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Awakening of Faith

(Jpn.: Kishin-ron)

See: Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, The

(See also: Awakening of Faith, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)

The American Civil War was followed by an acceleration of the Industrial Revolution. Cities grew with low income factory laborers. The ideals of the Second Great Awakening included the notion that men (and women) were improvable by their own works and material failure was a punishment for moral sin, a cold comfort to the impoverished working class. The Origin of Species was published in 1859, challenging the Creation account in the Bible and traditional interpretations of Christianity. A parallel philosophy that natural selection was ...

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Third Great Awakening, Third Great Awakening - Background, Third Great Awakening - The New Sects of the Third Great Awakening, Third Great Awakening - Historical perspective

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False Awakening:

An experience in which a person believes he or she has woken up, but actually is still dreaming.

(See also: False Awakening, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Awakening of Faith (Sraddhotpada-sastra): Mahayana Buddhist text of the 5th or 6th centuries CE by an otherwise unknown figure named Asvaghosha; the work which emphasizes ultimate reality as suchness (tathata).

 (See also: Awakening of Faith, Eastern Philosophy, Body Mind and Soul)

Some religious groups which grew or were created during this period were Christian, though quite different from other Christian denominations. Christianity saw a great deal of change during this period, particularly new forms of Evangelical Christianity which emphasized a "Personal Relationship with Jesus" and formed into a number of newly styled "non-denominational" churches and "community faith centers." The Fourth Great Awakening also saw the rise of nontraditional churches with conservative theology such as megachurches and a growth of parachurch organizations. Furthermore, ...

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Fourth Great Awakening, Fourth Great Awakening - The context in which it took place, Fourth Great Awakening - The New Sects of the Fourth Great Awakening, Fourth Great Awakening - Sources

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Self-awakened one

(Jpn.: dokkaku)

See: cause-awakened one

(See also: Self-awakened one, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)

Awakening of the Faith (Treatise)

A major commentary by the Patriarch Asvaghosha (lst/2nd cent.), which presents the fundamental principles of Mahayana Buddhism. Several translations exist in English.

 (See also: Awakening of the Faith (Treatise, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

The Awakened Life (The Awakened Life program): One of psychotherapist Wayne W. Dyer's audiocassette programs for self-development.

Wayne Dyer, Ph.D., is the author of Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for getting Everything You Want (Harper, 1998) and the bestsellers Real Magic, Seeing Is Believing, Your Erroneous Zones, and Your Sacred Self.

The Awakened Life program can teach one how to attune oneself to a Higher Power, which Nightingale-Conant Corporation, marketer of Dyer's programs, equates with God, Nature, and the Life Force. Wayne Dyer describes The Awakened Life program as powerful medicine that has been helpful in the treatment of cancer, other 'incurable' diseases, and addiction to smoking, alcohol, and drugs.

(See also: The Awakened Life, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Stage of progressive awakening

(Jpn.: bunshin-soku)

The fifth of the six stages of practice.

(See also: Stage of progressive awakening, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)

Awakening vs. Enlightenment

A clear distinction should be made between awakening to the Way (Great Awakening) and attaining the Way (attaining Enlightenment). (Note: There are many degrees of Awakening and Enlightenment. Attaining the Enlightenment of the Arhats, Pratyeka Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, etc. is different from attaining Supreme Enlightenment, i.e., Buddhahood.)

To experience a Great Awakening is to achieve (through Zen meditation, Buddha Recitation, etc.) a complete and deep realization of what it means to be a Buddha and how to reach Buddhahood.

It is to see one's Nature, comprehend the True Nature of things, the Truth. However, only after becoming a Buddha can one be said to have truly attained Supreme Enlightenment (attained the Way).

A metaphor appearing in the sutras is that of a glass of water containing sediments. As long as the glass is undisturbed, the sediments remain at the bottom and the water is clear. However, as soon as the glass is shaken, the water becomes turbid. Likewise, when a practitioner experiences a Great Awakening (awakens to the Way), his afflictions (greed, anger and delusion) are temporarily suppressed but not yet eliminated.

To achieve Supreme Enlightenment (i.e., to be rid of all afflictions, to discard all sediments) is the ultimate goal. Only then can he completely trust his mind and actions. Before then, he should adhere to the precepts, keep a close watch on his mind and thoughts, like a cat stalking a mouse, ready to pounce on evil thoughts as soon as they arise.

To do otherwise is to court certain failure, as stories upon stories of errant monks, roshis and gurus demonstrate.

 (See also: Awakening vs. Enlightenment, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

planetary awakening

Spreading awareness that we share a single planetary home and must be responsible for our environment

(See also: Planetary awakening, Body Mind and Soul)

Definition and meaning of Great Awakening:

Great Awakening

The Great Awakening was the widespread evangelical revival movement of the 1740s and 1750s. Sparked by the tour of the English evangelical minister George Whitefield, the Awakening divided congregations and weakened the authority of established churches in the colonies.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

Also see these pages:  American History, American History Sitemap, History, History Sitemap

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Edna Pontellier, the wife of a successful New Orleans business man and the mother of two, vacations with her family at a seaside resort. She spends a lot of time with Robert Lebrun, a romantic young man who has decided to attach himself to Edna for the summer. After many intimate conversations, boating excursions, and moonlit walks, they both realize that they are developing romantic feelings for each other. Edna realizes that there is much wit ...

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The Awakening Kate Chopin novel, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Primary characters, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Edna Pontellier, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Leonce Pontellier, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Robert Lebrun, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Alcee Arobin, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Adele Ratignolle, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Mademoiselle Reisz, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Doctor Mandelet, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Plot summary, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Themes, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Setting, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Critical reception, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - External link

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Immediately after its publication, reviewers frequently denounced the "unwholesome" content of this book, while simultaneously acknowledging that the writing style was outstanding. One critic remarked that he was well satisfied with Edna's death at the end. The harsh reaction to the book probably was the determining factor in the publisher's decision to stop publication after only a single printing. After its "rediscovery" in 1969, the book has been often praised for i ...

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The Awakening Kate Chopin novel, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Primary characters, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Edna Pontellier, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Leonce Pontellier, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Robert Lebrun, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Alcee Arobin, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Adele Ratignolle, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Mademoiselle Reisz, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Doctor Mandelet, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Plot summary, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Themes, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Setting, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - Critical reception, The Awakening Kate Chopin novel - External link

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Cause-awakened one

(Jpn.: engaku; Skt.: pratyekabuddha)

Also, self-awakened one. One who perceives the twelve-linked chain of causation, or the truth of causal relationship. Cause-awakened one also means those who, in an age when there is no Buddha, realize on their own the truth of impermanence by observing natural phenomena. Because their awakening is self-gained, cause-awakened ones are also called self-awakened ones. Together with voice-hearers, they constitute the persons of the two vehicles. Unlike bodhisattvas, they seek their own emancipation without thought of preaching for and instructing others.

The Sanskrit term pratyekabuddha means "independently enlightened one" or "individually enlightened one." In the early Chinese translations of Buddhist scriptures, it was rendered cause-awakened one, which implies one enlightened through perceiving causal relation ship. The Treatise on the Meaning of the Mahayana, written by Hui-yüan (523-592), describes pratyekabuddha as one who perceives the twelve-linked chain of causation or who awakens to the truth by observing natural phenomena such as the scattering of blossoms or the falling of leaves. Later the term was rendered as self-awakened one.

In The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra, T'ien-t'ai (538-597) distinguishes these two types of pratyekabud-dha-cause-awakened ones and self-awakened ones. Mahayana, which upholds practice to benefit others, referred to the vehicle of pratyekabuddha, or the teaching that leads one to the state of pratyekabuddha, as Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle), because it concerns only one's own salvation. The realm of cause-awakened ones is also viewed as a condition of life, in which one perceives the transience of life in the six paths and strives to free oneself from the six paths by seeking eternal truth through one's own effort. This realm or state constitutes the eighth of the Ten Worlds.

(See also: Cause-awakened one, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)

Great Awakening

A Christian revivalist movement that swept the American colonies from 1725 to 1760. In experiences of ecstatic joy and release, converts "awakened" to Christ and knew him experientially. By 1730, Theodore J. Frelinghuysen, a Dutch Calvinist, and Gilbert Tennent, a revivalist Presbyterian, had begun the Awakening from their churches in New Jersey. In 1734, Jonathan Edwards, the most formidable apologist for this experiential religion, witnessed to the "surprising work of God" in his Congregationalist church at Northampton, Massachusetts. British evangelist George Whitefield toured the colonies between 1738 and 1740 lending impetus and cohesiveness to the movement. Itinerant revivalists carried the Awakening to the South.

Its distinguishing characteristics included the insistence on the personal nature of conversion to Christ, itinerant ministry, and a novel preaching style appealing openly to the emotions. Mobile ministry and individual conversion tended to undermine the parish structure of the old tax-supported churches and led to a proliferation of separate and voluntary ones. The revivalists succeeded in revitalizing colonial Protestantism by a typically modern appeal to individual experience. They accommodated New World Calvinism and Anglicanism to conditions of dramatically expanded personal liberty.

(See also: Great Awakening, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Cause-awakened one

(Jpn.: engaku; Skt.: pratyekabuddha)

Also, self-awakened one. One who perceives the twelve-linked chain of causation, or the truth of causal relationship. Cause-awakened one also means those who, in an age when there is no Buddha, realize on their own the truth of impermanence by observing natural phenomena. Because their awakening is self-gained, cause-awakened ones are also called self-awakened ones. Together with voice-hearers, they constitute the persons of the two vehicles. Unlike bodhisattvas, they seek their own emancipation without thought of preaching for and instructing others.

The Sanskrit term pratyekabuddha means "independently enlightened one" or "individually enlightened one." In the early Chinese translations of Buddhist scriptures, it was rendered cause-awakened one, which implies one enlightened through perceiving causal relation ship. The Treatise on the Meaning of the Mahayana, written by Hui-yŸan (523-592), describes pratyekabuddha as one who perceives the twelve-linked chain of causation or who awakens to the truth by observing natural phenomena such as the scattering of blossoms or the falling of leaves. Later the term was rendered as self-awakened one.

In The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra, T'ien-t'ai (538-597) distinguishes these two types of pratyekabud-dha-cause-awakened ones and self-awakened ones. Mahayana, which upholds practice to benefit others, referred to the vehicle of pratyekabuddha, or the teaching that leads one to the state of pratyekabuddha, as Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle), because it concerns only one's own salvation. The realm of cause-awakened ones is also viewed as a condition of life, in which one perceives the transience of life in the six paths and strives to free oneself from the six paths by seeking eternal truth through one's own effort. This realm or state constitutes the eighth of the Ten Worlds.

(See also: Cause-awakened one, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)