| How Can I achieve Spiritual Enlightenment? | | | | to another and before you know it, meditation |
| This is the question that so many people ask. This | | | | time is up. Many will spend their entire meditation |
| article is going to explain the most simple and | | | | simply enjoying a certain relaxation while being |
| direct method for realizing enlightenment. | | | | distracted and consumed by the thoughts. This is |
| Meditation is the easiest method to realize spiritual | | | | normal. And there is a certain amount of spiritual |
| enlightenment. And you are about to learn how to | | | | growth that comes from just enjoying the peace |
| achieve a very advanced state of meditation. If | | | | that is there. But true meditation means to let go |
| you have not been practicing meditation before, | | | | of this tendency of being distracted by your |
| this information is just as important, but because | | | | thinking. |
| this is advanced meditation, it might be easier to | | | | To little by little, have moments where you are |
| begin with a simple technique which I will explain. | | | | not distracted by your thinking but are present |
| This technique will very quickly deepen your | | | | with what is here beyond thinking. You want to |
| awareness and can also lead to realizing spiritual | | | | surrender to allow the thoughts & emotions |
| enlightenment. | | | | to arise, because if you try and stop them, or |
| Close your eyes while sitting upright. With every | | | | control them, you will increase your stress. You |
| breath silently repeat "I am." You can repeat "I" | | | | want to surrender so that you can allow yourself |
| on the inhale and "am" on the exhale. And as you | | | | to experience what is here beyond the thinking. |
| are silently repeating this with every breath, let | | | | Yet at the same time, you want to witness the |
| your attention rest on the sensation of "I am," | | | | thoughts arising, so that you do not become lazy |
| the feeling that you exist in this moment. Not that | | | | and habitually get lost in your thinking. You want |
| you exist as a something or someone, but just | | | | to be completely focused in the moment to see |
| the sense that you are existing in this moment. | | | | the thought arising and instantly let it go. |
| With practice, this experience will become very | | | | So that you do not identify with the thought |
| clear, you will become grounded in experiencing | | | | arising, but remain present with what is here |
| yourself beyond mind and body, in a state of | | | | beyond the mind. A thought arises, or many |
| deep peace. From this point on, you can let go of | | | | thoughts arise, you watch this happen and let |
| repeating "I am" and simply rest in this experience | | | | them go. So there is this balance that is always |
| of being beyond mind and body. Once this has | | | | the aim: witnessing and surrender both at once. |
| happened, you can move on to this advanced | | | | Allowing thoughts, emotions, sensations to be as |
| meditation practice that will lead you to realizing | | | | they are in this moment yet witnessing the whole |
| spiritual enlightenment. Please read this carefully: | | | | experience, letting thoughts go as fast as they |
| True Meditation is a combination of both | | | | arise. At first, these two seem to be opposites, |
| witnessing what is inwardly happening in the | | | | but through practice you realize witnessing and |
| moment(as opposed to identifying with what is | | | | surrender are one & the same. When you |
| happening) and surrendering to what is inwardly | | | | reach this point life will become very blissful. You |
| here(as opposed to trying to control or resist | | | | will have freedom from your mind and live in a |
| your experience.) So you want to allow your | | | | deep state of peace. Eventually, both aspects of |
| experience in this moment to be as it is but | | | | surrender and witnessing are transcended into a |
| without identifying with it. You want to experience | | | | state of perfect stillness where only pure |
| this moment as sensation without trying to define | | | | formless consciousness remains. In this state |
| it, describe it, judge it, or say 'this is me.' | | | | there is no thought, no sense of form, no identity. |
| The main obstacle in meditation is the mind. | | | | This is the beginning of Samadhi, where the |
| Thoughts arise and the tendency is to identify | | | | personal 'I has vanished and meditation happens |
| with the thoughts, to become involved with the | | | | effortlessly. It is in resting in this space that will |
| thinking. To think you are the thinker and that the | | | | lead you to realizing spiritual enlightenment. |
| thinking is important. And then one thought leads | | | | |