godnotgod
Thou art That
A few adjustments to your comments, if you don't mind:
Firstly, no one attains Enlightenment. That is a misconception. Why? Simply because everyone is already enlightened. That is our default state of being. It's just that most of us have failed to realize that fact, because we are spiritually asleep. We awaken to our own Enlightenment, just as the dreamer awakens to this worldly reality, the worldly reality always being present. One of the obstacles to this awakening, is that most people think themselves already awake, and so make no effort to look further.
The reason only a few seem to have realized their Enlightenment, even after years of searching, is that they are looking for something beyond what is right under their very nose; for something miraculous that is outside The Ordinary. They don't see it in The Ordinary because their minds have been conditioned since birth by their social indoctrination. So all of the work that an adept must perform is not in trying to 'get enlightened', but rather in trying to detach himself from his conditioning, which prevents him from seeing things as they actually are, which is what Enlightenment actually is. Most humans see things as their conditioned mind tells them they are via their conceptual frameworks about Reality, but not by what Reality itself is.
Q: How can something unauthentic attain that which is authentic? All efforts made by that whose nature is unauthentic can only produce unauthentic results. That which is authentic must first awaken to the fact that something is not quite right. Since we all are already enlightened, we already are authentic, but are pursuing unauthentic goals, due to conditioning.
Actually, enlightenment is the realization that the self is an illusion, so 'self-awareness' is not the experience of Enlightenment; self-awareness still lies within the realm of perceptual reality, and not Ultimate Reality, because it still entertains the existence of 'I'. IOW, the experience of Enlightenment is just that, and does not involve an 'experiencer of the experience', that is an individual self called 'I'.
The authentic spiritual experience is, as Deepak Chopra has noted, 'the merging of the observer, the observed, and the entire process of observation into a single Reality'...
...which is not exactly correct either, since the idea of an observer and the observed is an artificial conceptual framework in a subject/object split created by the mind as a means of the mind trying to 'make sense' of the world we live in. So really, there is no separate 'observer' of the observed that merge one with the other. It only SEEMS that this occurs to the rational mind, the 'Oneness' of Reality already IS the case, which must be seen directly, rather than thought about. What actually occurs is the dissolution of the subject/object split in the mind. It is then that things come into proper focus.
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