This Is My Definition of Enlightenment

[Cathy92506]

Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.

What changes is your relationship to your thoughts and emotions.
They still arise, but you’re no longer automatically identified with them. You’re not building an identity or a story around every feeling.

There’s a natural sense of presence—of being here—without needing to control the mind.

You’re still human. You still fall down—but you don’t get lost in it the same way, and you get back up.

Life stays ordinary.
The circumstances don’t transform.
The shift is internal — in how you relate to the voice in your head.
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[James123]

1 hour ago, Cathy92506 said:

Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.

What changes is your relationship to your thoughts and emotions.
They still arise, but you’re no longer automatically identified with them. You’re not building an identity or a story around every feeling.

There’s a natural sense of presence—of being here—without needing to control the mind.

You’re still human. You still fall down—but you don’t get lost in it the same way, and you get back up.

Life stays ordinary.
The circumstances don’t transform.
The shift is internal — in how you relate to the voice in your head.
***
PLEASE CRITICIZE, ADD, DELETE, OR WHATEVER.

you are accumulation of emotions and feelings. So when you are not attach to them, you die. Neither you feel presence or being here.

Your true nature is freedom is freedom itself, therefore you don't need to feel it. There is no distance, only Be.

[Ziran]

2 hours ago, Cathy92506 said:

Life stays ordinary.

No sparkle?

[Ramasta9]

31 minutes ago, Ziran said:

No sparkle?

Partial Enlightenment  

 

[Cathy92506]

5 hours ago, James123 said:

you are accumulation of emotions and feelings. So when you are not attach to them, you die. Neither you feel presence or being here.

Your true nature is freedom is freedom itself, therefore you don't need to feel it. There is no distance, only Be.

I think I see what you're pointing at, but I don’t agree that non-attachment means “you die” or stop feeling.

In my experience (and in most traditions), it’s more like you still feel everything — just without getting completely pulled into it or defining yourself by it.

If anything, there’s often more clarity and presence, not less.

[James123]

34 minutes ago, Cathy92506 said:

I think I see what you're pointing at, but I don’t agree that non-attachment means “you die” or stop feeling.

It is like resting. Body and mind works as they supposed to be. You rest.

[UnbornTao]

Is this AI? Hello there.

[Carl-Richard]

Floating down the river and just sitting calmly in the raft.

Edited 38 minutes ago by Carl-Richard

[Natasha Tori Maru]

AI 

[PolyPeter]

It's always the em-dashes