Just a recurring thought that emmerges a few months ago:
I was just wondering if death of the physical body could be considered as an enlightement ? In fact you are not attached to your sensations, or anything physical anymore, you become the witness of it. The ego, and all the ego-driven personnalities will also die at the moment of physical death.
In that perspective, there’s no spiritual practices to be done, all you want to achieve is pure illusion, only creates attachement to the result, only death is certain.
I guess „enlightenment“ is a term that describes the dissolution of the ego in the form of understanding that it does not exist as seperate entity but that there is rather only ONE reality/god/conciousness and „I am that“
It is in that sense different because in case of death it is not certain that the ego gains the understanding that it is ONE with reality and therefore it is not the same. Sages say that if enlightenment has not been reached in this life the mind will form another world to start another search. Rebirth.
Regarding what you said. The confusion lies in the perception that „Now“ and „Being dead“ are two different states of being. One with forms and the other without forms. The ego sees itself as form hence the concept of life and death.. but that what is, transcends both, form and formless and is the eternal reality…