What is enlightenment really?

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Don't claim it, don't define it, don't talk about it. Unless you're a buddha.

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Originally Posted by wanderlusterer

From the stories, Siddhartha appears to me first as a confident, cheerful and talented prince without a care in the world. After seeing old age, frailness, and death he starts to worry for the first time. His journey to seeking enlightenment then seems to be his way to handle the idea of death and pain, as people of all religions have always done. He does however pass on peacefully and lived a full life.

Is enlightenment simply being non-attached to this world and life and all worlds and all lives, simply not to suffer when our loved ones or we die? Is there much more to it? Is there much more that can be achieved beyond enlightenment? Would enlightenment be akin to going to heaven? The texts mention him entering parirvirvana?

If we found a empty house and we decided to move in ........as we stay longer , we put more thing inside the house ...we decorated the house as we wish ...one day we realized that all the thing we put in the house is reflection of our emotion of desire / love / greed / hate etc ....we awaken and realized that all these thing is causing we happy and sad .......so we stop take care of all this things and each day thief come into the house and take it away ....we does not recall it as we simply forgotten it ......as times goes by ..we left with empty house just like before .........and this process in my current mind is Buddhism ......and enlightenment is a condition that one "forgetting" to hold on emotion .........