[QUOTE=FlexPenguin;60362]Human life is rare or not rare as a matter of context. In comparison to the universe, or the entire world, yes it is rare. In the context of human being, not so rare. In fact, quite prolific (I’ve added a few souls myself with little effort 
). If you refer to expands awareness, then I agree many human exist to eat, drink, emit, and fuck. But, the paradox is that without these activities we would cease to exist. What would you have us do? We are animals who, with the advanced development of our amazing tool - the brain - put processes in place where we didn’t need to spend all our time looking for food or protecting ourselves. Now, we can sit around and think. Think about who we are? why are we here? What is our purpose? What makes me happy? T[B]he notion of enlightenment and godliness are creations of the mind. [/B]This is not reality. Reality is eating, drinking, emitting, and fucking.[/QUOTE]
The “notion” of enlightenment is a creation of mind, but enlightenment as a “phenomenon” is independent from human mind.
I’ve been telling this for a long tyme to some of my friends, and I should repeat it here too: for %99.9 percent of spiritual seekers, enlightenment is an anticipation. For example, generic Buddhist meditation is an anticipatory practice - they sit down and wait to be overcome by the will of whole.
However for the, %00.1 it is a “lived experience,” a phenomenon. It was Martin Heidegger who approached the closest this “embodied” comprehension in his very complex philosophical writing.
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Osho once gave an excellent analogy to explain this “lived experience” of enlightenment.
[B][I]Imagine a temple with a garden, surrounded by no walls. A philosopher is the person who dares to enter the garden and ponders about the temple as well as about what is inside the temple, as he strolls around.
A poet takes further steps and comes by the door of the temple. It is poet who expresses his wonder about the temple and his words are wrought with the beauty of the temple’s door.
A mystique, however, is the one who has already entered the temple, and now sits down there in the midst of the temple, with the temple, as a whole.[/I][/B]"
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You could surely see the difference in this example - the difference of human quality to comprehend enlightenment and “live” enlightenment.