The words of the Buddha are not sufficiently explanatory to bring one to enlightenment (nirvana). The reason for this is easy. It is because enlightenment goes beyond language and, for that matter, human thought. It is truly unthinkable and inconceivable.
In one sense enlightenment exists for humans but in another it does not exist in the way it humanly appears when, through 'subject-object dualizing’, it seemingly appears yet remains nevertheless empty of true reality when at the same time true reality transcends it.
Is this extremely difficult to wrap our heads around? Yes it is, because the simple fact of language is that it can, for example, describe a mountain but it cannot bring us to its summit. The Buddha, for that matter, is more like a mountaineer than a scholar who reads and studies many books.
What is called the Buddha’s path is the path of summiting where we, all at once, converge with the unthinkable and the inconceivable. It needs to be said that with this convergence there begins also the work of transcendence which is the bodhisattva’s path, that is, undoing what our desires have acquired and sought refuge in—saving our sentiency from future rebirth.
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