-I'm gonna get enlightened. -No, you're not.
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That’s an unclear statement. Can you clarify?
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"Enlightenment" itself is a fuzzy word. In any case, it's not the self that becomes enlightened. It's the seeing the self for what it is that is enlightenment. Who sees? I don't know. (To be fair, this whole discussion is bound to become derailed by semantics.)
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This word was used in a context. My original question relied on that context to try to clarify the meaning of the word & unfuzzy it. Sounds like the issue is with the word “I” rather than the word enlightenment. If by “i” I mean this system (not self), can “i” get enlightened?
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Right! There are two booby-traps built into the koan, and you're questioning both of them. First is that "I", properly understood as process, can't "get" anything at all. Second is that "enlightenment," if it means something that can be got and owned, is a fantasy.
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