… I see, but surely I’d need to establish an identity with all its physical elements such as a face before I could truly abandon the ego and try for enlightenment? I think I’d need some solid base to evolve from, but I understand your point!

“it is hard to feel enlightened when I do not have a face – well no physical sense of identity and all that”

This is (ironically the point of enlightenment). When you go past seeing your physical self, memories and thoughts as anything substantial- as something that adds up to a individual separate “self”. With no ego ‘in the way’ we evolve into an expression of Self/ Divine/ God/ Buddha

“Invisible Man or should I say person?”

Yea. Often it has been said of a Gnani that it is as if there no-one is there.

I only got 6 too and I thought I was a pretty enlightened person. Oh well, it is hard to feel enlightened when I do not have a face – well no physical sense of identity and all that…. I currently look like the Invisible Man or should I say person? So when will people be able to put a face to a name huh?

stikes me that not many of those questions had much to do with enlightenment and more to do with what you’ve read…

for the record i got 6/12

oh and with the matrix quiz q6 i’d go for number 2, possibly keeping half an eye on the tv;-)

Enlightenment is too ‘last year’. How about:

Is Your Church on the Cutting Edge?
Or
How cynical are you?
Or again
How competetive are you?

All at the same Beliefnet.com site, along with about a hundred other inane quizzes, including one on the Matrix.

This question just about sums it up:

Q6. There are 30 seconds left in a really good football game that’s going down to the wire. The network breaks into the game for a news bulletin about hostage negotiations in Kazakhstan. You:
1. Go berserk and scream at the TV.
2. Race to the radio to see if you can pick up the play-by-play.
3. Hope they get through the news bulletin quickly.
4. Pause to pray for the hostages.

A Test Your Enlightenment Quiz www.belief.net/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=&surveyID=112
Obviously I got 10/12. Just think profound and you might get a few right.
Now this is a quiz I don’t mind winning.