Why does the enlightened man not stand on his feet and explain himself?
927062
He's been sitting too long mediating and his legs went to sleep. \nBut seriously, how many people would take that guy serious. He knows it is futile, to teach any individual about enlightenment. Everyone has to come to that on his/her own
568278
"God" didn't step out of the clouds, sit down with some vellum and quill and write that, sorry. Some regular ol' man who claimed "God" spoke to him did.\n\nWhen this happens nowadays, the person in question is usually placed under psychiatric care.
212064
Most people like to be led around by the nose by someone who seems to be in charge.  They are afraid of taking responsibility for thinking for themselves.\nReal, objective truth is not a matter of belief.  It is a matter of recognizing reality for what it is; A=A, and A does not equal C unless A=B and B=C; and being able to conceptualize it all correctly.\nSometimes, those who are demonized are the ones who look truth in the eye and are not afraid to speak of it; e.g. Galileo Galilei, when he said that the planets revolve around the Sun and not the Earth; and Andrei Sakharov, who dared to speak out against the corruption that is communism.  Those are the people who are the REAL heroes of our world.
1153259
Sounds like a personal war.\n\nHe sees the world like he wants it to be\nOthers see it like it is.\n\nAnd others are just plain blind in many things.\nAnd others have no reasoning power at all\n\nBut he is way off base--in the land of Oz. And though he speaks of rasism--he is a rasist. No common sense at all. He can go.\n\nWhat a world.
1056105
why people do not learn grammar? you have faith in something with no proof. not all people choose to do that. the Him you speak of is in the eyes of the beholder, hence the reason some don't give respect and thanks.
961910
Why? because He is the Truth and the truth is challenging to things of the darkness of the human mind, they fear that which they do not comprehend, and the light that shines in the darkness of sin and denial.\nyou will see this in the negative votes this answer gets.
728677
Man, in an attempt to explain the world around himself.
405327
People listen to him because they are narrow-minded and his propaganda supports their pre-existing beliefs.  He survives the same way that many others get by - helps you to rationalize that your problems are the fault of someone else, and he can help you (if you pay him enough).
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i didn't even know about him until i read your question. i read a bunch of stuff about him and i must say, i feel kinda sorry that people won't leave him alone while he meditates. when asked why he left his spot under the tree, he said "there is no peace here". anyway, i don't blindly believe in miracles. but i will be following this story from now on. i just hope he gets some peace and quiet so he can figure out what he needs to. i'm sure all this hoopla isn't what he is trying to accomplish. hopefully he can figure out a way to get his messege across to people without all the usual crap that springs up whenever a prophet appears somewhere. and i hope noone tries to hurt him. it would bother me very much if he became another victim of ignorant violence.
924278
it is not enlightenment
843768
Not really sure about the answer to that one! Maybe he had to lie about his age at some point, or maybe his head is so far up there he thinks he is the master of time as well as everything else!
956921
Because he doesn't understand a lot of what is being taught so he distracts everyone so they don't notice his lack of knowledge.  If he pays attention maybe he won't be so insecure and can learn more.
1150520
Because He is above man's understanding.
735527
I was in ther prescence of a person whom I suspect to have been very close to enlightenment.  She always was kind and wise.  She did not criticise others and seemed to be deeply genuinely happy.  Life did not seem to have the ability to shake her at all.  She was like a rock...others came to her for guidance or help or sometimes just to be in her prescence.\n\nShe probably didn't even have the word enlightenement in her vocabulary, she definitely would not claim to have been.\n\nShe just...was =)
819278
Man already knows what happens.  He just doesn't want to admit the depressing truth.\n\nWe STOP.\n\nPeriod.
908162
Why implicate the Buddhists.Either you are unstable or trouble maker.
137150
its is somewhat of a paradox....but a man is noble as he is....and only he will control the level of his noblity~