“Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The trouble with most people's concept of Enlightenment is that they think it adds something to them. It doesn't. The Ego wants to add things, to become more, to be important, to have a shiny "I Am Enlightened - Look At Me!" badge, but it can't.
YOU, the Ego, is that which is awoken from.
You never existed. You were just a construct, reliant on false memories, conveniently forgetting those gaps in time when you didn't exist because you forgot to pay attention to the thoughts.
Let me make that clear again:
The little you, the Ego, CANNOT be enlightened, because it's not real.
For anyone who is still trapped in seeking and not understanding, Enlightenment takes things away, it does not add them. The truly enlightened know very little, because we are trying to express truth and truth cannot be expressed well in language.
What you truly are exists before language.
- You do not see, seeing happens.
- You do not taste, tasting happens.
- You do not touch, touching happens.
- You do not hear, hearing happens.
- You do not smell, smelling happens.
- You do not THINK, thinking happens.
You are as real as the 'it' in the phrase "It is raining".
Post-enlightenment brings with it the realisation that there is no 'do-er'. That life just happens and that you are not the body, or the mind, but you are the totality of everything.
You no longer 'know' anything that can be expressed well in language, because language cannot express that Truth. The best we can do is 'truthy' posts, like this one.
You don't need some super-experience of one-ness, some Samadhi High, because those are experiences, and they only happen to the ego. It just becomes something you understand, that you cannot find an edge to the real 'you'. That you cannot imagine a place in the universe where 'you' do not exist, because what you actually are contains the whole universe.
You truly are the Creator and Destroyer of all you perceive.
