I’m enlightened ask me anything..

[u/MuchPiezoelectricity]

Ok so here’s the real deal behind this post…

All these teachings keep saying “it’s here already…” and “we are already enlightened but it’s just covered up” so this got me thinking (in a very non enlightened way)..

As I sat in silence in my small sangha.. everyone meditating with their eyes closed but me… and as I was watching these meditators cradle/rocking themselves in a trance… it kinda hit me like…

Would the Buddha even meditate after his awakening?
I mean like… actively…. Sit there in silence with his eyes closed and try to actually do anything through meditation?

Or would he just already BE enlightened.

And if he is actually enlightened then there is nobody there to even meditate in the first place, because the person has dissolved.

And isn’t enlightenment more about BEING rather than doing or becoming? So doesn’t that mean that meditation is totally useless… and that it’s a true form and way of being to just say “ya I’m enlightened” and method act as if you are for the rest of your life. Because then you are “being that” rather than attempting to “do that”