Enlightenment Is the Disappearance of Enlightenment

[James123]

After Enlightenment, the mind may does not vanish entirely, but it loses its authority.

Thoughts may still appear, but they no longer veil the One. They are like ripples on the surface of a deep, still lake.

The One is not concerned whether thoughts come or go for he / she no longer identifies with them.  Because there is no longer a “someone” caught in the flow.

Moreover, Enlightenment does not end pain. Pain still comes, but it doesn't belong to anyone. One does not become a Superman or infinite or god consciousness 😊 

The mind becomes like a burnt rope. It may appear to have form, but it has no strength.

There is no inner chatter about the future, the past, success, failure, others, or oneself etc.

Only silence remains as the ground of being. But, a silence not created, not practiced, However, revealed as the natural ground of being. All doing happens spontaneously, without the burden of the doer. 

From that stillness, action may arise,
but it happens without weight, without effort, without the burden of a doer.

All movement becomes spontaneous,
unclaimed, unowned, as natural as wind passing through an open field.

One sees now that the past, present, and future are not truly separate entities.

They do not exist as fixed, real segments of time. Moreover, They only seem to exist when thought brings them up.

When One thinks of five years ago, that image appears in the mind and it feels real, but only now, in this moment of thinking.

Then, The moment attention shifts say, to a memory from three years ago, the previous image vanishes. It has no independent existence. Only the current thought holds space.

For example, if I think of five years ago, it appears real now. But if I shift and think of three years ago, then five years ago disappears. It’s not there anymore, only what I’m thinking now seems to real. Such as think about Brazil now, see it is real now. When the thought ceases, Brazil is gone.

So One sees: time itself is born of thought. Without thought, there is no time. No past to remember, no future to anticipate, only the unbroken Now remains.

So actually, time is just happening in the mind. Without thinking, there is no past or future.

There’s just now, still.

And because, One is no longer investing energy in the stream of thinking, no longer clinging to it for identity or security, the sense of me, the doer, the thinker, the rememberer, is also seen to be false.

It was never a real being, only a collage of impressions, a collection of thoughts referring to themselves.

Once this is clearly seen, what remains is not a new version of self, but the falling away of all self images.

So, After enlightenment, there is no "you", no idea of enlightenment nor "enlightenment".

Only That remains: pure Being, the Self, You, or simply, What Is. Not an achievement, but what is always here. Now. 

Freedom is not escape. Life goes on, but the sense of me or you is gone. Pain may arise, but there is no sufferer. Thoughts come and go, but there is no thinker. Only Now remains, silent, formless, free. One remains in the body, yet untouched by it.

Abide as That.

Best Regards,

Edited August 7 by James123