[snowyowl]

Originally Posted by AbodhiSky

In Buddhism, one is enlightened or not enlightened.

Does this mean that enlightenment is a sudden, all-or-nothing event? I'm not a Buddhist myself, but in my readings I've come across different schools of thought, some sudden like Rinzai Zen, and others gradual like Theravada.

If we allow shades of grey across the board (and perhaps quantum mechanics can be included here), then we can have a fuzzy logic with a fuzzy reality, not fuzzy knowledge about a clear-cut reality.