Do enlightened beings get bored as they have already reached the ultimate and there is nothing left to be achieved?

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Enlightenment isn’t the end of accomplishment. It still feels good to do things. Challenges are still present to be overcome. I get just as much pleasure out of doing things as you, except maybe more because my mind isn’t quite as divided when it does things.

What enlightenment marks the end of is personal distress at not being able to do things. If I feel bad about something, I don’t identify with the badness and with the lack of identification, the actual bad feeling goes away fairly quickly.

Enlightenment also tends to remove illusions about what is responsible for accomplishment. I have a nice career as a software developer. Am I responsible for that career? I suppose, but it’s not the career I chose, I chose to work in intelligence for the US Air Force. A sequence of events led to me being a software developer instead.

I’m better off as a software developer, but I never would have gotten there on my own. To be enlightened is to be able to surrender your own goals and wishes to those of ‘the universe’. Nowadays I call it “God.” God and I worked together to find out the right place for me.

I was able to walk away from my dream of being an intelligence analyst, being an intelligence analyst never defined who I was, nothing did.

You become enlightened by shedding all identifications. You flow like water to whatever needs you. You grow and build from a stream into a river. As a river, you overwhelm and erode obstacles just through the force of your being. There is no relationship between accomplishment and boredom, because the identity that would bind them together, that of a person that feels bad if they’re don’t get things done, if they don’t have something to do, that needs to be someone, isn’t present.

There’s just a person that accomplishes the tasks set out in front of them. Whatever’s there, that’s what I do.