Oh what a topic is this, wonder when buddha would have experience of enlightenment, he would have had a question wait a minute is that real, a delusion, wow and then nothing, its being never heard of before what is this
All he can correlate to is the realization its very profound, beyond concept, and the experience is like the knotted ball of thread, with rushes and reeds unfolding and opening all by itself each knot after another with a realization oh that’s how it is but would have struggled to explain it, just realize it
Probably that’s why he sat for meditation 7 days after to do further investigation
- How can buddha convince himself and others on how it was done or what it is, who is listening and why should they care
- is this something to achieve, its physical or mental
- how can buddha tell others what is highest happiness when they haven’t seen by themselves
- At one moment its a experience of wow this is so amazing, beyond words concept and thought analysis,
- In next moment thought would come there is no being to get enlightened, there is anatta, and what would buddha mean by he being really enlightened
- Does enlightened get psychic powers using which they can show others, how can he go back to community, who always consider having something materialistic as value to tell them nothing is much much better
All these questions would have come to buddha. People accept others for something when they see the difference for themselves, how can you should this to someone. Oh what suffering buddha would have to declare himself as enlightened and prove it to others
Where do Enlightened ones exist?
Enlightened ones neither exist in any realms nor not exist as both perspectives here refer to existence and question itself is wrong. Thats what is said
this be comprehended like: Consider a dark meteor, the enlightened ones clean this meteor from defilements, orient it in certain direction and let is fall, free fall. This creates a brilliant radiance lighting up the sky which can be seen across galaxies, which eventually gets smaller and smaller and light goes stronger and more radiant till eventually it disappears, there is nothing left anymore to burn or exist which can be seen by the eyes, we call it shooting star, perfect example for enlightenment.