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Am I Enlightened?

There are two answers to this question:

1. Nobody is enlightened
2. Enlightenment is all-there-is-and-is-not

But the most profound answer is the absence of the questioner.

Maybe it crept up on me when I wasn’t looking. But there is nobody for it to creep up on. How can everything creep up on itself?