What do we mean by permanent enlightenment?
Answer from the V.M. Samael Aun Weor.
The Illuminating Void is impossible to describe with human words. It is not definable or describable. As Zen Master Huai Jang has said: Anything I say will miss the main point.
The Buddhist teaching on the Void is comprehensive and profound and requires much study before it is understood.
Only in the absence of the Ego can we directly experience the Illuminating Void.
To deify the Mind is absurd because the Mind itself is only a fatal dungeon for Consciousness.
To affirm that the Mind is the Buddha, to say that it is the Tao, is absurd because the intellect is only a cage for Consciousness.
The mystical experience of the Illuminating Void is always carried out outside the intellectual realm.
Buddhist enlightenment is never achieved by developing mental strength, nor by deifying reason; On the contrary, it is achieved by untying any bond that ties us to the mind.
Only by freeing ourselves from the intellectual dungeon will we be able to experience the bliss of the Illuminating Void, free and entirely insubstantial.
The Void is simply a clear and precise Buddhist term that denotes the non-substantial and non-personal nature of beings, and a sign indicating the state of absolute detachment and freedom outside of time and beyond the Mind. Drink the Wine of Meditation from the delicious Cup of Perfect Concentration.
Samael Aun Weor.
Answer from the Book "The Esoteric Pentagram in Gnosis.".
The state of permanent illumination is called "living water" within the Hinayana Buddhist school of Tibet, while the state of temporary illumination is called dead water.
What interests us, students of Gnosis, is the conquest of "living water", achieving a state of continuous, timeless illumination; but this implies the disintegration of every form of attachment, desire, every type of psychological facet that binds us to this Mayábic or illusory world. In contrast, we need to integrate the various parts of our being as a consequence of the death of thousands and thousands of psychological defects that we carry internally in our psyche.
…
The path of gnosis is a path of great sacrifices and supreme renunciations, it is the path of death from the psychological point of view. The practice of each factor implies great renunciations and sacrifices, there is a bunch of selves that have to die, only with the death of the ego from instant to instant, from moment to moment, will we be able to experience one day the living water, the permanent illumination that gives the crystallization of the three primary forces of nature within ourselves.
The Magazine "The Wisdom of Being" 102: "Renunciation."