direct path to enligthement

[Hendrik]

I got a question for you guys.

How would you personally define enlightenment and could you personally recognize an enlightened person if you met one?

IMHO,

As it said in the song of enligtenment, it says


净五根　得五力　唯证乃知难可测
镜里看形见不难　水中捉月怎拈得


Clean up the five root, then one attain the five power.
when one attain it one will know; otherwise it is very hard to examine what is it.

(analogous to) one can easily see shapes within the mirror
However, how can one scope up the moon within the water?



So, clean up the five root, attain the five power. then one knows. one will see it as as easy as seeing shapes /form within the mirror.

Speculating and trying to define it , is similar to trying to scope up moon within the water.


Enligthenment is an non dual phenomenon not a mental concept or speculation or thought or some state one tries to achive.