If in enlightenment there are no more questions, does that mean life loses its mystery?

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Ultimately - yes. But losing its mystery isn’t the same as being explained. When the mystery of life is accepted in its totality, there cannot be any more mystery to accept. If there is any, then it hasn’t been fully accepted yet.

Perceiving a mystery is an illusion coming from not knowing yourself completely. You are your own mystery to yourself, your own mystery to uncover. One first needs to plunge into that mystery, allow oneself to venture into the unknown with abandon. But when there is nothing unknown about you any longer, life becomes very simple.

It is still unexplainable, and unpredictable, but the desire to explain or predict it is no longer there, so it doesn’t feel like mystery any more. This desire is your own desire to see more of yourself, your call to surrender and dissolve yourself into the ultimate mystery of life and know yourself fully.

And knowing yourself fully and not knowing yourself are one and the same thing.

But one should not confuse mystery with curiosity. Curiosity about how things work is very natural for any animal. Every animal figures out its surroundings. Human brain is especially potent, so one can be fully enlightened and still be a scientist if they find this occupation pleasurable. Lots of curiosity in science, lots of wonderful, interesting things to uncover! Mystery is different, mystery is about you, not the outer world, but the inner one. It is an intuition, a calling. It comes from the desire to know your true nature. Follow this calling!