Man is "blessed" from above...

...and "damned" from below.

(No, not some religious/spiritual reference; NO WAY!)

Naked apes, no matter how apparently evolved they have "risen" from the trees and savannahs to build, populate and maintain thatched, wooden, concrete and steel buildings, are simply (that is, in their ordinary state) not capable of comprehending, fully grasping, understanding in full measure, profoundly grokking, or achieving "Enlightenment" thereby, that which has come down to them from the, let us suggest "More Enlightened Beings From Above," usually in the form of written pages and books (using stone tablets, plant papyri, and most other kinds of wood pulp and close substitutes.) This is because most "Teachings" (from whatever source) very quickly become quite corrupted by natural law-conformable human mentation. It could even be suggested that such elevated UNDERSTANDING is a law-conformable process above the level of Earth, but a non-law-conformable process on Earth, so never (hardly ever) occurs.

Yes, their human-based "thinking" seems like it produces something or other - at least they convince themselves of that fairly quickly after acquiring the capability to utilize a formal, or even semi-formal language, and string multiple words together at one time - but in fact, most humans who attempt Thinking (without quotation marks) are worse off for having "followed" some "teaching" (no matter where it actually came from) that has as its most obvious feature, that these followers neither conceived, created, discovered or even invented it. (By the way, finding a book in a book store, is NOT "discovering" anything. Discovering is meant to suggest, Discovering Enlightening Concepts That Work, on your own, by your own efforts.)

Now, reading this, hearing this, WHO is going to argue, especially in their typically, most vehement, or righteously indignant terms, even to the point of BANNING or EXILING the messenger (as if that might cancel the validity of the message?) You guessed it! (Hopefully.) Those who have bought the story, suffering, as all humans naturally do with "hook in mouth disease:" fishing line from the apparent ABOVE, (though most often, from the actual BELOW) and sinking into the deeper depths of their mental and emotional confusion where tongues wag but say damn near NOTHING AT ALL! But, they apparently have a "good story to tell" and don't they tell it everywhere?

Well? Don't they?

You see, Enlightenment, Awakening, Nirvana, and all the other funny-sounding, usually made-up terms (at least to the great unwashed and unaware, although much like "food of the gods" to the supposedly Washed, and Aware) has MUCH MORE to do with experience in the moment - moment by moment by moment and then some, hundreds of times per day by actual count - than talking/posting about one's "Teacher/Guru/Master" and the many books, audios, videos and commentaries produced by and about them, and later disseminated to the public far and wide.

Again, nobody can truly comprehend what S/He wrote at the time - and truth be told, even they can scarcely do that - because the ordinary human mind (brain matter) is effectively, operationally incapable of doing so. Generally, most people are bewildered by all of it, rather than becoming "enlightened."

"Man is 'blessed' with clarity from above,

...and 'damned' with confusion from below."

Now, try to pull your above (head) from out of your below (ass), and try to THINK (without quotes) what that simple, yet extremely complex phrase might mean, once you remove all past beliefs, views, theories, commentaries and criticisms from your "Thinking" Process. Go on... Do it now! 

No time exists LIKE THE PRESENT!