With so many claiming to be enlightened these days, what exactly does that mean? Who or what is enlightened? The separate individual? Some folks can tell you the exact second they were "awakened" and have dramatic stories surrounding it but were they really ever "asleep" to begin with?
There are some really huge egos that claim "enlightenment" as the ultimate feather in their cap but the truth is that enlightenment is a non-event meaning--nothing happens. If there really was an independent "me" that could be re assimilated into oneness, then, of course, liberation could be real, but, as all there is is undivided being in this very moment, there is no one who could "wake up". Mistaking the ego for something real is a sort of "sleep" but it can only appear in awareness, wakefullness. In deep sleep, when there is no consciousness, there is no idea of a self and, therefore, no problem.
Generally, the imaginary seeker doesn't want seeking to end. It's the lure of "hitting the lottery" and attaining the unattainable. Hearing about their true nature isn't what they want, they want exercises and tasks they can do to become, but the Self--what we are, has no use of becoming because IT IS. Becoming can only happen in the dream of self, time and space. In the absence of belief in these falsehoods, there is WHAT IS and it doesn't need to be any other than what it is.
An individual who claims to be enlightened in taking part in another form of self hypnosis. The ego is "hiding" within the idea of egolessness. The truth is, though, that there is no ego and there never was one to begin with, there is only the movement of the divine energy which can be called "God" or whatever you like. It doesn't matter what you call it.
Seeing through the "me" concept is not a positive event, it is a lack of something--the very core belief in the separate self. It is nothing and it is already the case. The separate self is a figment of God's dream but God doesn't sleep.
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