How Do You Understand And Live This Paradox of Enlightenment

[Joseph Maynor]

On the one hand you are already Enlightened.  Reality was never changed by a you, so speaking of you changing or doing anything is just a story, a belief laid up on top of reality.

BUT you must spend the rest of your spiritual life detaching from Ego and beliefs.  (Detaching in the sense of loosening identifications with thoughts, beliefs, paradigms.)

[Neo]

Something like, looking back in hindsight, there is no you to do anything, nothing to do, however looking forward it seems we need to do, change affect something, and in between is the now moment.

[tsuki]

I like to see it this way:

The paradox was always there, you just weren't aware of it. The paradox is the ego dissolving itself. The paradox is the smoke and mirrors that constitute it. It likes to disguise itself as something stable and dependable, but it's not.

Logic tells you that if you assume false, you can prove anything. You can prove that you did in fact change reality, or you can disprove it. 
If you assume paradox, you will get a paradox. If you assume "seeking truth, but accepting none", you will, at the end, see the paradox. 

As for the road that lies ahead? You just carry on, like nothing happened and smile silently. 

[ajasatya]

live healthily

[Saumaya]

14 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

On the one hand you are already Enlightened.  Reality was never changed by a you, so speaking of you changing or doing anything is just a story, a belief laid up on top of reality.

BUT you must spend the rest of your spiritual life detaching from Ego and beliefs.  (Detaching in the sense of loosening identifications with thoughts, beliefs, paradigms.)

I don't like this saying one is enlightened..because the is no you. It is better to say that enlightenment is enlightened...no you in there