Thank you for this. I often see specific people paint enlightennment as some neo-specific nearly-unattainable state, in where you have to do x, y and z to 'get there' or something similarly. There's nothing to attain imho, in my eyes it's more or less something that is already innately present, something already 'there', day in and day out, though much of the time it seems that we can become so inundated by various things in our lives, things that can easily [and possibly even sometimes effortlessly] obfuscate the obviousness/immediacy of 'It'. Thinking linearly in regards to enlightenment I think, imho, is doomed to failure [just being approached in that way and how I often see it approached].

There's a name for a state of being in the Mandukya Upanishad that I feel is somewhat relevant [and wouldn't surprise me if it be one n' the same], and puts this a little more into focus, 'Turiya' [The Fourth State], the state that underlies [& transcends] waking consciousness, dreaming and dreamless sleep,pure consciousness, Brahman, we are That.

The Chandogya Upanishad says that we enter this state regularly, if we could only be aware of it: that every night we are:

“like someone unknowingly walking back and forth over a buried treasure, so near and yet so far.”

(Chandogya VIII.3.2).

** And just for reference, I don't think turiya, pure consciousness, brahman, or w/e 'is' enlightenment hah, I just think mentally speaking that these states in and of themselves can reveal a mode of perception [once back in consensus reality] and/or being in the world, something that isn't so easily cast aside as is most other things, something that (ime) isn't shakeable, it's something that's there every..single..day.