You are enlightened. Enlightenment is like a light that always shines.

[Adilbek]

Enlightenment is like a light that always shines. But it shines through the personality and it seems to you that the refracted light is not what it should be. Like the shadows of trees refract and distort sunlight on the ground. And it seems to you that the light should look exactly NOT the way it looks now and something is wrong, and this is definitely NOT WHAT IS NEEDED. But this is what is needed. Enlightenment is when you understand that this was THAT all this time. When you realized that because of the shadows of the branches, the sunlight is not something less. Even if you remove all the branches, the nature of the light will not change. And you slowly push the branches apart until the earth is illuminated by light. You already understood that there is no difference and never was, but for this you had to remove the branches first. But now you have removed them and the next time something refracts the light again, you will no longer think that something is wrong with the light

I mean to say that the thought "I am not enlightened" is just a branch in the path of the sunlight that seemingly means something significant, that it points to a fact that you're not enlightened. But in reality it's just a branch that cannot change the sunlight. The sunlight is the same whether there is a branch or not blocking it. So it is IMPOSSIBLE to not be enlightened. Only enlightenment is and nothing else. Your belief of not being enlightened, and in fact your whole personality are just some nice embellishments on the face of enlightenment.

You are enlightened right now. You are just denying it. The thing is, if enlightenment was something to be attained it wouldn't be such a big deal. But it's a big fucking deal. So the game of attaining enlightenment is actually played in reverse. You need to actively be denying enlightenment to "stay unenlightened". I put it in quotes because again like I said it's only a belief that you are not enlightened. So because enlightenment is so ABSOLUTELY TRUE, it takes a huge effort to stay in denial of enlightenment. 

The allegory of the cave is actually about enlightenment.