What is enlightenment? [View All]

[sweetheart]

Is not the very purpose of having a mind and a live, to contemplate
the profound question, no? Attempting to write about it, the first
folly that words and the self that knows words, think it knows, as
knower and object in the deception of mind.

Do not all people live their lives measured against some invisible
semantic moral, ethical or something or other enlightenment? Surely
as easily as one can discern evil and that bad things are being done,
there is the same up-side ability to "know" enlightenment?

Is it just being really really smart?
Is it being profoundly loving?
Is it having magic powers?
Is it nothing, as in "no thing or experience"?

It is defined by englightened people as "life without thought".
Something direct, immediate, total, in and not in meditation, or all
of life is that meditation... even with the terrible fear-states,
contractions and contradictions of this world.

If it is true, and we better hope it is, that we are the enlightened
left, then we better dang well show some. If life is without thought,
and the self who writes, who knows language, is false, then knowledge
of words and langauge, surely is not enlighenment, then that all of
life "is" enlightenment, it is a false contradiction of the mind to
presume there is anything else. In that case, the entire world, every
instant in time is deeply alive and vibrant with deep mystical
richness, only richer and richer. Writing fancy verses or singing
great songs can lead to weaith, but the wealthy are not enlightened,
that whatever form of government has reduced us from respecting the
roots of knowledge (universities) as the basis of our culture,
and has replaced this with GOP mediocrity, wallmart wealth of cheap
plastic inauthenticity. How could such a culture based on plastic,
not crumble? How could a culture based on enlightenment not be quite
different?

And yet it is all enlightenment, and there is "no self",
"Tat Tvam Asi", "I am", "Sum ergo cogito",
"the father the son and the holy ghost",
knowable and unknowable.

"Who" knows enlightenment?