What If Enlightenment Is Not As It Is Portrayed?
Humans are extremely clever, and extremely stupid; both states are distractions.
What if enlightenment is merely understanding, experiencing and realising the fundamental reality of our natural being, of just being aware for a moment or continuously.
We have heard all the wondrous stories from the past, but do they happen now, in front of our eyes?
Has there been a wondrous Buddha in the past 500 years? What if the enlightened are quite straightforward and natural, and the rest of us are so stupid in our cleverness, when we merely have to transcend confusion by not believing anything.
The point is that we may meditate and think that it’s leading somewhere better, when it’s just a matter of dropping the act, with its repetitive script.
But what about religions?
Humans are extremely clever about making something out of no-thing = empty cognisance.
This simple understanding takes the pressure off,
by us not being taken in by appearances.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
I do not think ‘seeing through’ the stupidity that goes on in almost every religion, is difficult for most humans, but ignorance wraps them in complicated concepts of culture, tradition, country, identity etc. and in allegiance to all these “human made” ideas and boundaries, an average human is completely trapped from the moment of physical birth until death, unless he/she strongly feels and responds, to the inner call of Truth and Reality. Then upon questioning everything, and intuitively relying on Truth rather than going by the conditioning, there is a hope for freedom.