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