Isn’t enlightenment one human brain’s awakening to the inescapable fact that I is not just me, myself, but humanity itself?
My physical existence is a fact, but my personal identity (despite what I think it is) is just accumulated content that serves no necessary purpose, and has the effect of generating confusion, conflict, and profound insecurity.
So why isn’t knowing what’s wrong its correction? Could it be that knowing what’s wrong doesn’t make things right because knowing is just believing, and freedom is beyond belief?
Your problem, the world problem is that you are caught in the illusion that you are other, separate from yourself, that you can observe yourself as a separate entity. That’s the fundamental illusion.
It’s not a thing that has to be gotten rid of. If you look; it’s not there.
Yes, obviously we can’t separate ourselves from our environment, our relationship with everything we come in contact with, but we can think, believe we are separate, and act accordingly.
You blame this illusion on thought, as if the brain is just the power source that thought uses, and I attribute this illusion to the brain’s unenlightened condition.
What do you think Krishnamurti meant when he spoke of the brain’s transformation? Do you think he should have said that thought must undergo transformation?
What he said about thought is that there is practical, technological thought which is necessary, and there is psychological thought which is the problem. Bohm talked about how the activity of psychological thought made thinking incoherent, confused, conflicted.
If you don’t think the brain can awaken to the incoherence of thought caused by the activity of psychological thought, what hope is there for humanity? Perhaps you think thought will realize what it’s doing and stop doing it. If so, we’re saying the same thing, but disagreeing about whether the brain must awaken or thought must awaken.
Thought…you / me has to ‘awaken’ to the fact that we don’t exist. We go on and on as if we do. We analyze, describe, opine etc as if we do exist. But we don’t (as much as we’d like to!)….
Enlightenment is the ending of all illusion. It’s freedom (absence of fear, desire and the self).It is timeless, choiceless awareness where observation is without any observer.
That said, enlightenment is neither a concept nor an idea to be intellectually understood or pursued as a practice.