Is enlightenment just a concept?

“Unsurpassed enlightenment” transcends human thought, emotion, and language.
Human senses, perceptions, thoughts, and feelings are only a small part of the truth that can be handled.

Therefore, enlightenment can only be expressed in words with negative expressions such as “this kind of appearance is far from enlightenment.”

> It was all an illusion! It's an occasional thing, right?

Right now, there is a clear fact that I exist, feel something, and think about something.
I don't think “everything is an illusion.”

> Even enlightenment is just a concept, right?

The world of enlightenment itself cannot be fully expressed in language.
However, for example, a way of life where people are selected for their own convenience and dislikes and abandons what is not convenient is a way of life far from enlightenment.
In this way, the expression “this is not enlightenment” is possible.

that kind of stupid thing.
It's just an illusion.
It's a lie because there is no reality. If anything were an illusion, you wouldn't be able to see, hear, smell, taste, or even feel.
Buddhism is not Maboroshi ideology or Maboroshi supremacy.
Enlightenment is enlightenment and clarity.
If you look at things with Maboroshi's brain or delusional vision, it's probably the same as Maboroshi.
It's like I'm in a daze no matter what I look at or listen to.
Enlightenment is clear, clear, and clearly awakened.
Don't look at anything more than that there.
Rather, if there is such a thing as seeing “more than that,” then that “more than that” is an illusion.
For example, you added incidental substances due to your own thoughts to enlightenment, saying that enlightenment is maboroshi.
It simply attached the label “illusion” to enlightenment.
Right now, it's a world I'm watching with my thoughts and thoughts.
First, try to see, listen, and perceive what is in front of you without the temptation or option of your own thoughts.
You will witness a truth beyond enlightenment, hesitation, and maboroshi.

Enlightenment is also written as awakening.
It's about noticing.
to what?
It is impermanent conduct and lawlessness.

Impermanence means that everything is not constant but changes.
That includes the fact that you too are impermanent, and that you can continue to change.

Lawlessness means that everything exists thanks to its surroundings.
You exist because of the people around you, and those around you exist because of you.
Not only do you know these things with logic, but you also remember what you can feel from the bottom of your heart. (This is my personal interpretation. There are other interpretations.)

In that sense, everything in this world is an illusion, but the present moment certainly exists, and it is definitely not an illusion.

I read it.
Enlightenment is accepting just the way it is.

That's it.

In the early days of Buddhism, there was also the term extra nirvana (uyonehan, muyonehan). Enlightenment with excess, enlightenment without excess. It's not a very good word, though. I think it's better to think of suffering as an incurable disease. It's not something you should get rid of; it's something you should get along well with. We should learn what to do in order to live positively even in the midst of illness.

I spent quite a bit of time worrying about how to express the previous answer, but last time I only emphasized that “Buddha was also worried and conflicted” by prioritizing breaking everyone's stereotypes. But in reality, “I had a conflict, but each time I composed a poem of wisdom to repel Mara.” I've never given in to worry. Don't worry about that. In other words, the nuance of “worry comes to mind, but I wasn't swept away by worry” is more correct. This omitted nuance comes down to “I know where to aim... outlook (abbreviated)” in the last paragraph. I'm happy to write it here. Thank you very much.

And actually, I had to write more of the title part, but please imagine the biorhythms of enlightenment and unenlightenment. It's like the waves on an electrocardiogram. It is an image that normal people usually have this biorhythm of enlightenment in the negative direction (unenlightenment), and sometimes when there is an opportunity, they unknowingly become temporarily positive (enlightenment). On the other hand, people who have realized it quickly return to positive even if it becomes negative, and the positive period lasts for a long time. And since I know that kind of state of mind is good, I feel like I can make time for enlightenment and mind as a habit even if there is no trigger. That is the meaning of “those who are enlightened will be easier to understand.”

When that happens, there is a difference in how many times the speed is from person to person. This is probably why the term “the greatest Buddha among the Buddhas” naturally came into being. Enlightenment and Buddha aren't 0 or 100.

Is enlightenment an escape? why is that? If it was an escape route, the Buddha wouldn't have gone on an evangelistic trip after realizing it, and would have withdrawn to Gion Seisha or Chikurin Seisha and didn't come out.

It's fine if you don't understand. That's because what you originally thought you understood and didn't understand has begun to move in the direction you really understand. That's proof of hard work. Don't throw it out there.

Koala-sama

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

“Enlightenment was actually all an illusion! It's always a matter of time, right?” ・・

In Buddhism, it is certainly explained that every thing or thing seems like an illusion.

It is shown with analogies such as an illusion, a dream, a blaze, an echo, an escape, a mirage, or Gandharva Castle.

However, you have to be careful that it's just “like” or “like.”

It's not like there aren't any things, and certainly things are possible in terms of “good fortune” (causal relationships, dependency relationships, etc.).

What should be denied as not being is an “entity” (self-naturality/self-phase that exists independently without being dependent on others, and continues to exist forever and forever without change). The fact that this entity does not exist is called “sky” in Buddhism.

Therefore, if you say “everything is an illusion,” and even though it is a red light, say that both the traffic light and the car are “illusory,” and if you run into an intersection, of course, you will get into an accident, get injured, and worst of all, you will die...

As part of enlightenment, it is important to thoroughly practice understanding the above “sky and fortune” as wisdom.

“Enlightenment is just a concept, right?” ・・

It's a concept, not a concept... rather, it's a concept that goes beyond a concept... Also, it's easy to misunderstand that it “exists” beyond a concept, such as “ridiculous extinction,” or “outrageous,” but enlightenment is actually “empty (not as an entity), and is made up of luck (causality, dependency, etc.).”

Therefore, if we are able to adjust the causal relationship (cause and condition; simply, the accumulation of bodhicitta as the cause and the accumulation of resources for wisdom and good fortune as conditions), we will eventually reach enlightenment.

Let's work hard together.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho