Enlightenment is not a social construct. There's nothing to be constructed; it only needs to be uncovered because it is already present. What needs to be transcended are the five aggregates (pañca skandhāḥ) which comprise the experience of form, sensation, perception, volitional formations and consciousness.
All such experiences are an illusion (māyā). They comprise the world of suffering. These five experiences amalgamate into the grand illusory experience I call my self, the experiencer. But with all such experiences they are illusory. Yes, it's true that experiences seem real and substantial but they are not.
Fundamentally, there is no ontological truth to be realized by way of experience. But this is not to say or to suggest that Siddhartha did not uncover the truth so as to awaken to something profound, beyond even the realm of experiencing.
But then the question needs to be asked how does Siddhartha propose to teach his wisdom to people who are addicted to experiences who may even imagine that enlightenment is some kind of super experience? Obviously, there has to be some kind of withdrawal from the intense addiction of experiencing.
Without a withdrawal from experiences, especially sensuous experiences, one is simply accumulating more addictive behaviors. The path that Siddhartha took to achieve Buddhahood was a path of gradually weaning himself off of experiences which tied him more to world of flesh and becoming.
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