How is claiming enlightenment different than belief?
Discussion
First-hand experience is a kind of knowing. Belief is a sincere hoping.
But experiences are subjective and can deviate from reality, like dreams, there must be some tie to reality, ie. a shared experience with unbelievers/unenlightened that could serve as proof?
There is a difference between believing something because it has been told to you, versus feeling it viscerally in your heart.
This feeling is what many who sit in meditation, travel to mountaintops, or take psychedelics seek.
There must be distinguishable evidence of this knowledge/belief in reality. Many people have genuine belief/perceived knowledge in falsehoods, and their strength of belief/understanding does not produce truth in reality. Wouldn’t that which is true have miracles associated with it?