Enlightenment is not a human state. It is not something a human achieves. It is not a mastery of the human mind, it is not a human insight, human thought, human emotion amplified and increased to some super-human levels.

Enlightenment is what you are. Enlightenment is what you are not in a sense that “we are all already enlightened, only we don’t know it yet”. Enlightenment is literally what you are if you are enlightened, the same way that human is what you are if you are a human.

To ask “how can I find a teacher that will direct me to the path of humanity” would be absurd, wouldn’t it? You don’t need a path of humanity - you are human. Your life, your human life, your human existence, is a path of humanity.

Enlightenment works the same way: those who are enlightened are enlightened the same way you are human. Their lives, their existence, is a path of enlightenment.

Your life is your path of being you. Being you is the only path available to you. You can’t walk a path towards becoming a cat, a fish, or a rabbit. You can’t become something other than what you are. If you are a human, your life is a path of humanity. If you are enlightened, your life is a path of enlightenment.

Whatever it is that you are, your life is it, your path is it, and you are walking it already. There is nothing else you can do, and there is no other path you can walk.