Enlightened paradigms

[Poetryandpolygraphs]

Is enlightenment the transcending of all paradigms? Could there be any exceptions ?

[lmfao]

@Poetryandpolygraphs good question. If I had to (describe)/(guess the nature of) enlightenment I'd say that it probably involves the transcending of paradigms in the sense the your awareness is completely fixated in the present moment and sees through all the "thought stories" you create. Like everyone has paradigms they use, and  the way I conceptualise the existence of paradigms is to say that the contents of a paradigm are the result of the metaphysics and axioms held about reality. For example, a form of the "scientific paradigm" holds as a premise that there are natural causes to things going in the world. This paradigm can include the assumption that logic, maths and reason will help you understand reality, the assumption that determinism is true, the assumption that everything is physical and etc. 

The way I see it, enlightened people still operate on paradigms it's just that they know that their paradigms are not to be confused with reality. 

[Mu_]

3 hours ago, lmfao said:

@Poetryandpolygraphs good question. If I had to (describe)/(guess the nature of) enlightenment I'd say that it probably involves the transcending of paradigms in the sense the your awareness is completely fixated in the present moment and sees through all the "thought stories" you create. Like everyone has paradigms they use, and  the way I conceptualise the existence of paradigms is to say that the contents of a paradigm are the result of the metaphysics and axioms held about reality. For example, a form of the "scientific paradigm" holds as a premise that there are natural causes to things going in the world. This paradigm can include the assumption that logic, maths and reason will help you understand reality, the assumption that determinism is true, the assumption that everything is physical and etc. 

The way I see it, enlightened people still operate on paradigms it's just that they know that their paradigms are not to be confused with reality. 

Really good answer.

@poetryandpolygraphs

Also enlightenment is just a word, a word not defined or agreed on across humans and cultures, so there for there is no answer to the question. If you can define your question, then perhaps you can find an answer, but I bet the further back you go to try and define what you mean by your words, the more you'll find you don't know what you mean.  Now if you do that, your one step closer to what many cultures point to when they say the word enlightenment.