Buddhist Enlightenment involves realizing the nature of reality—seeing the impermanence of self and phenomena, and transcending attachments through insight into emptiness and non-self. Unlike Hegel’s absolute knowledge, which is the dialectical culmination of Geist achieving total self-consciousness by resolving all contradictions within history and culture, Buddhist Enlightenment is less about synthesizing opposing concepts and more about dissolving the ego to perceive the true interconnectedness of existence. Both approaches, however, emphasize a transformative understanding of reality and the liberation that comes with it.