Religions and spiritual directions

When I was young, I asked myself: How is it possible that especially in the East there are so many monasteries and so many monks and directions (Buddhism, Hinduism and all the other …isms) and yet there are very few enlightened people? How is it possible?

I have come to the point that no matter how Buddhism and other … isms are considered (including Zen) as suitable directions for spiritual development and the attainment of enlightenment, they are all currently just religions, the same as others (such as Christianity, Islam and all the rest). . They are important for people who need at least something to grab hold of and be socially organized… But the problem is that it ends there. Some people think that through certain methods and ways (meditations, prayers, contemplations) spiritual progress and even enlightenment can occur. Which would be possible, but it is not the goal of our life. Because spiritual progress itself should be achieved and fulfilled by fully experiencing everyday life. And not just by meditating and praying, but by bringing a spiritual component into everyday life. The methods and ways of meditation and any other are not bad, but it is similar to religions. They are only the 1st step, the 1st external approach to one’s own inner self. But then a person should integrate them into his daily life so much that they cease to be methods and ways, but become part of the daily experience of earthly life. First, we should e.g. to meditate, but after some time our daily life should become meditation. Not that in my life I use e.g. meditation techniques, but so that the action, the inside of a person, which emerges during meditation, itself is integrated into everyday life. Our inner essence. And later this essence is to unite with the earthly man. Then all methods and ways stop, there is no meditation, no prayer, no religion, because there is already a person who does not need “crutches”, support, because he has learned to really, really Live. To live everyday life as the Trinity, as the integrity of body, soul and spirit.