experience

ENLIGHTENMENT (3 stages of)
Osho in I say unto you, vol.1

Mini-Satori: This is when the first glimpse happens. When, for the first time, for a single moment mind is not functioning, there is a gap -- no thought between you and existence---and the meeting, merging, the communion... but for a moment. And from that moment the seed will be in your heart and growing.

Satori is what I call the second stage. It is when you have become capable of retaining this gap as long as you want. For hours together, days, you can remain in this interval, in this utter aloneness, in God, with God, as God. But a little effort is still needed on your part. Whenever you want you can create that milieu in you which brings it. You can relax, if it comes in relaxation; you can dance if it comes in dance. You can go under the sky if it comes there. You can watch a rose flower if it happens there. You can go and float in a river if it happens there. That's how all the methods have been discovered. They have been discovered by people when they found out that in a certain situation it happens. It is almost like your radio or like your TV: it is always there, sounds are always passing; you just have to tune the radio to a certain station -- and the song, and the news. But still, effort is needed to tune. You are not continuously tuned on your own, you have to work it out. Some days it is easy, some days it is hard. If you are in a negative mood it is hard, if you are angry, it is hard. If you are loving it is easier. In the early morning it is easier, in the evening it is more difficult. Alone on a mountain it is easier, in the market-place it is more difficult.

Samadhi: When you become so capable of finding it that any moment, whenever you want it -- not a single moment is lost -- you immediately can pinpoint it, then the third thing happens. It becomes a natural quality.