Question: Would you call awareness ‘enlightenment’?
Theravada
Tittha Sutta: Buddhist Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant
An allegory on truth and interpretation. A group of six blind men endeavour to describe an elephant.
Two: Questions of Monks to their Teacher Ajahn Chah
Practice is separate from any posture. It is a matter of directly looking at the mind.
Questions of monks to their teacher Ajahn Chah
Greed and hatred are the same in an Eastern or a Western mind. Suffering and the cessation of suffering are the same for all people.
Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind
Sensing no change in the changing, Sensing pleasure in suffering, Assuming “self” where there’s no self…
The Teaching Grates against our Desires, by Ajahn Chah
So, if there’s friction in your practice, then it’s right. If there’s no friction it’s not right, you just eat and sleep as much as you want. When you want to go anywhere or say anything, you just follow your desires. The teaching of the Buddha grates.
Both Happiness and Unhappiness are Unsatisfactory, by Ajahn Chah
The Buddha knew that because both happiness and unhappiness are unsatisfactory, they have the same value. When happiness arose he let it go. He had right practice, seeing that both these things have equal values and drawbacks.
If you don’t let go, there will be suffering, by Ajahn Chah
In the field of conventional reality, one side is right and the other side is wrong, and there can never be complete agreement. Arguing till the tears fall, however, is of no use whatsoever. The Buddha taught non-clinging.
Buddhism now 