liberation

Liberation is also called enlightenment, emancipation, nirvana, or awakening. At a most basic sense, it is often talked about in the context of the four noble truths as being free from suffering or the cycle of birth and death.

More subtly, we can take it to have these meanings as well:

• liberation from conceptual frameworks/thought (both of oneself and others)
• liberation from habit
• liberation from karmic binds
• liberation from self-centeredness