Is it true that enlightenment is equivalent with perfect knowledge?
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This can be illustrated by the sutta Aṅgulimāla. The Buddha can stop him easily.
If by perfect knowledge, you meant the Iddhis, then while it Can be developed once one's attained enlightenment, but it's not a Necessary condition. For sutta support, see SN 12.70. Also see the discussion about different types of enlightened disciples in AN 4.87
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One of the things that's special about the Budda, specifically, compared with other enlightened people, is that the Buddha is especially good at teaching others -- for example:
How the Buddha is distinguished from other arahants
Now all these epithets are true for the Buddha as well, but the Buddha is not described in this way; for these terms emphasize the attainment of one's own liberation, and the Buddha is extolled, not primarily as the one who has attained his own liberation, but as the one who opens the doors of liberation for others. That is, even in the archaic suttas of the Nikāyas, an "other-regarding" significance is already being subtly ascribed to the Buddha's status that is not ascribed to the arahant.
See also Pratyekabuddha:
According to the Theravada school, paccekabuddhas ("one who has attained to supreme and perfect insight, but who dies without proclaiming the truth to the world") are unable to teach the Dhamma, which requires the omniscience and supreme compassion of a sammāsambuddha, and even he hesitates to attempt to teach. Paccekabuddhas give moral teachings but do not bring others to enlightenment. They leave no sangha as a legacy to carry on the Dhamma.
I think that all arahants have a certain amount of knowledge or insight -- e.g. about the nature of suffering and the dhamma.
Some people, including the Buddha, and not all of them enlightened, also have "psychic powers" -- the ability to know what other people are thinking, what their mind-state is. The Buddha used this power to help him teach people who were ready, when they were ready.
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Yes. Fully enlightened person has the perfect knowledge.
If you explore the reasons behind the knowledge gathering, eventually you will boil them down to a single reason. That is the “self interest”. And then the question comes to who or what is self?
The whole purpose of Buddhism is to discover this “self” or “me”.
Eventually you will discover that the “self” is just a delusion. Then you will become an enlightened person.
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In buddhism, Enlightenment is the "direct knowledge" about suffering, the origin, the cessation https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.011.than.html
the four immeasurables is just how to get to Brahma world, like here https://suttacentral.net/mn99/en/sujato so it is not Enlightenment. When you claim that the four immeasurables is Enlightenment you are a hindu and that's totally wrong in buddhism.
So you are mixing hinduism and buddhism. In hinduism the path to nibanna is to generate merits over and over, same thing with the jains. They have to burn up past bad karma and create lots of good karma.. But that's very wrong view.
In buddhism generating merit is useless to get enlightened. Merit gets you a good birth and that's all. In buddhism you need to know about suffering, the origin, the cessation and the path to the cessation of suffering. So do not confuse the path of merit, the path of Enlightenment and Enlightenment itself.
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