enlightenment is....
- your natural state of felt oneness with being
- finding the true nature beyond name and form
- the end of suffering
the moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of conciousness becomes activated.
you have it already. you just can't feel it because your mind is making too much noise.
identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgements and definitions that block all true relationships. you are not your mind.
Incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness. have you found the off button yet?
Listen to the voice in your head. Feel a concious presence - your deeper self - behind the thoughts. The thought then loses power over you.
When thoughts subside, you experience a gap of no mind. At first these gaps will be short, but they will gradually grow longer. When the gaps occur, you feel a certain stillness and peace within you.
With practice, this stillness and peace will deepen and you will experience the joy of being.
The joy of being is not trancelike - there is no loss of conciousness. You are much more awake and fully present. It raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that gives life to the physical body. You can feel your own presence with such intensity that everything else becomes insignificant.
all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
on an average day, the average person runs 60,000 thoughts through their mind. 95% of these thoughts are repeated from yesterday.