Enlightenment Destroys Mindfulness

There is a saying from Tibetan Tantra that mindfulness must be kept always.  Until, it is said, enlightenment comes to demolish your mindfulness, one must keep watch always over the tendencies, habits, and impurities of mind. 
Mindfulness and vigilance lead to the spontaneous awakening of our true nature from its nap of self.  When the nap ends, like cold water on your face, there's no need to keep dreaming mindfulness any longer. Is that to say that mindfulness doesn't happen?  No~
It simply means an end to the identity which was being mindful, an end to the self that was watching...at that point of speaking your whole life is mindfulness, which is to say enlightenment is your life.
Does that mean everything is pleasurable? No~
It simply means you're not napping anymore, you've woken up...then the responsibility of living what you really are begins to annoy you.  It annoys you until you really can't take it anymore, then you wake up deeper.  Over and over and over....now, now, now.

Mindfulness can be fancy, can be hard, can be a pleasure, but when the monster of enlightenment comes to eat you up, you are swallowed up whole--mindful or not. 
At this point the ego has the opportunity to try to enlighten itself which is called egomania, which results in intellectual enlightenment and actual delusion.  Or, ego has the opportunity to go along with the whole thing, which can be extraordinarily painful, but completely fresh and awake.  It's really up to how much you're willing to quit indulging fear and hope.
When fear and hope are gone, enlightenment is just being natural.  With no hope and no fear you manifest mindfulness spontaneously, somewhat wildly~
When the nap of our delusion is cut, we don't really need an alarm clock anymore, just a warm cup of tea and a dreadful smile.

There is a Place We Go Together

There is a Place,
we go together.
There, we are complete before each other.
There, you disappear,
and I vanish.
All that's left of us is This~

Your petty stories,
and my ridiculous ideas
get transmuted here,
where there is only the nectar of Truth.

Come on, don't play dumb~
We've been here all along,
Now, we're just opening our eyes.

Tantra

Tantra teaches us to relate tho things as they are.  It teaches us to relate to all of life from the awakened state.  The true view of Tantra sees that there is nothing but the Divine in all things, and the teaching is to relate to everything as Divinity.  It is relating to pleasure, and relating to pain in their most basic, real, original way.  Tantra is challenging in that includes an ever-expanding view of reality, and yet remains intimately aware of the unchanging, formless ground that is eternal reality.  It neither hides out in the transcendent realms, nor is it just a puppet to worldly existence,--it is awake, vibrantly lucid and clear and undisturbed. 
Tantra isn't a philosophy or belief system, it is to relate directly to your experience in a way that is wholehearted, complete, and total.  It doesn't solve our problems for us, if anything it gives us more to deal with in that we don't have any spiritual escape from life.  Tantra has as its basis sanity,  reality, and truth.  It seeks to annhilate spiritual misunderstanding,  it seeks to eradicate loftiness, it seeks to turn our attention toward everything. 
Tantra is simply being involved in life, not just practically, or efficiently, or cunningly, but wholly and entirely.  In Tantra, we have no place to go, nothing to achieve, nothing to realize..Life itself becomes the whole message being related all the time.  Relating to life is what most of us have not yet begun to do because we're still trying to figure out what it means to be spiritual, Tantra teaches us that being spiritual is being touched by life as it appears.  It is no escape, no comfort, no reliable philosophy.  It is the removal of any addition to the already perfect stream of life.  With nothing in the way, we have the true freedom to cry, to explode, and to dance.

Take a Look Around

Our thoughts are so often just a product of our past, or on some concern for the future, that we need to stop and take a look around for a moment.  If we just simply take a look around we would find two very interesting things going on~ On one hand, none of our thoughts are actually happening, and on the the other hand there's a lot more mystery unfolding than we might have imagined. 
To realize that none of the content of our thinking is actually taking place is a great liberation because we don't have to be conditioned and controlled by the past and fears of the future.
To realize that there's a great mystery unfolding before us is a great thrill to our system, and we see that there is a wholeness that always here... even when our thoughts are dwelling in some fearful or excited state there is a reality present in and around us that has nothing to do with our thoughts.
The challenging moment is the one where we have the willingness to stop and take a look around, when everything in our being is telling us to worry, fight, escape, hate, defend.... the willingness itself is a courage and power to transcend our tiny modes of consciousness and open to the vast experience that's happening all around us in, as Kabir writes, "in the tiniest house of time".