Nietzsche once said something along the lines of we say lightning flashes, but are there really a lighning and a flash? Because of the subject/predicate distinction in our langauge we trick ourselves into thinking there's a subject "lightning" and it's doing something "flashes". But there is no being behind the doing. People work the same way we say Daddy drinks, daddy works, daddy eats, daddy scratches. Cutting to the point, you are a sum of all your actions. nothing more.
In essence, not only do you not know anything, but there is no "you" as most people consider it.
All that aside I feel that Enlightenment comes within a striking moment of death.
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