Meditation Path To Enlightenment

It is in experiencing what is here in this moment that you find unconditional love and happiness.

Unfortunately, the habit is to avoid this moment, thus creating stress and unhappiness.

Everyone is seeking the same thing. You can say either they are seeking happiness or to get out of their pain.

The thing about it is, like a fly caught in a spider web, the more you try to get out of your pain, the more stuck in the pain you become.

That is where desire is born. Where seeking is born. You look here and there to try and find a way out of your pain, to find happiness and love. Most people are not even aware of their pain. Yet if you look, you will see how you are constantly seeking something to take you out of this moment, to keep you from experiencing what is here. There is a discomfort here, the need to be distracted by something in order to feel good. But you have gotten used to this discomfort, and you have gotten really good at avoiding it. The main way you avoid it is through thinking.

There are layers and layers of mental activity on top of that pain, there are a million tasks and distractions that keep you from ever becoming consciously aware of that pain.

If you really look at why you do the things you do, it is that they give you some sort of pleasure or relief. You want to win the race because it feels good for a short time that you won. You want an icecream because while you are eating that ice cream, there is a certain amount of pleasure. You may even want to be angry at someone, because you get a certain amount of relief by focusing that anger at someone.

If you are bored, you seek any means to overcome that boredom. Because all boredom really is, is the state where you have run out of ways to distract yourself from this moment.

So you seek to fulfill desires. First it may be instant gratification desires like sex and drugs. Then there are material desires, or desires for success, to find a relationship. Then desires to improve yourself.

Ultimately, you come to the conclusion that none of these things fulfill you. So you have spiritual desires. You want enlightenment. You enter meditation to get bliss or to be free from your pain.

All of this is the natural progression of the ego. It is how it is supposed to be.

But then you come here, you come to a place that can teach you true meditation, as a path to enlightenment. As a way to be free from your pain, to fill you with bliss.

And you find bliss for a time, you find freedom from pain to an extent temporarily. But still, although better than everything else, it still does not fulfill you.

So if you want to be free from all of this seeking, from this pain, if you really want to experience true unconditional happiness, if you really want to learn true meditation as a path to enlightenment read this closely:

1. Realize, that there is pain, there is unhappiness, discomfort. Most people never stop and experience what they are avoiding in this moment. They say I am happy. Yet they are constantly seeking something to fulfill them. Just in seeing that you are looking to be fulfilled means you are not fulfilled now. This very realization will bring your great freedom.

Most people do not believe that it is possible to be happy and blissful. They do not believe what all of the meditation masters have said and that your natural state is peace, bliss and love. That it is possible to live in such a state.

Because if you really look in this moment, if you stop all of your action in this moment, and experience what is here in this moment, without getting lost in your thinking, you will probably find peace. This is good.

But then if you stay with it, you will feel the pain you are always avoiding, and very quickly, you will get lost in your thinking again to avoid feeling what is here in this moment.

So you have to be willing to feel what is here. To see that in every moment, you are avoiding this moment, you are resisting experiencing this moment. To become aware of this habitual resistance is great freedom already.

2. Second thing to do is dont call what is here unhappiness or pain, simply allow yourself to feel it completely. Accept yourself completely as you are without defining it, judging it. Forget the mind all together. Just allow yourself to feel what is here in this moment as sensation. Notice the sensations you feel of existing in this moment. Surrender to how you are, without trying to change it, improve it or define it. Just feel and breathe.

3. In the beginning, use a technique to help keep you present. Because you will get lost in your thinking again and again. Getting lost in your thoughts is simply the habit to avoid being present and experiencing what is here. It can be as easy as noticing the feeling of your breath moving in and out of your nose. Or silently repeating I am with every breath, keeping your attention on this feeling of I am or being, beyond the mind.

4. You need enlightened presence. When you sit with someone who has mastered the meditation path all the way to enlightenment, their enlightened presence washes through you, cleaning out your energy channels and awakening that same enlightened presence in you. The easiest way to do this is to meditate The Calling CDs for Spiritual Awakening. Simply by listening to the CD, you are given what is known as shaktipat/deeksha/grace. It awakens your natural state in you in the same way as sitting with an enlightened teacher.

5. In accepting yourself as you are, in allowing yourself to experience what is here in this moment, you naturally become aware, present. Meditating with the Calling CDs spoken about above will make this process very easy and provide a lot of bliss and peace along the way to make it a delicious journey.

6. Be responsible. Stop blaming others for your anger or sadness. Stop hurting others, stop seeking justice or to be right.

In order to awaken to your true nature, you must simply experience what life gives you. This is karma. Allow life to be as it is instead of constantly trying to change everyting and everyone around you. In being present in this, without fighting it, you move very quickly into high states of awareness.

7. Intensify the awareness. Become a witness to your thoughts, really, in every moment in meditation, be absolutely present. Sometimes it is necessary to give up the bliss to be present, at some point, bliss also must be surrendered, so a greater freedom and bliss emerges.

8. You, as a person, as the knower, the wanter, the doer, the one in control, you as an ego is the problem, is the suffering. The more you feed this ego and empower it, the more you will separate yourself from the love that you are. So practice humility. Become aware of how you are always trying to be right, to know everything, to be noticed, to be loved, to be accepted by others. Become aware of the egos need to be all of these things. In the awareness of it, you move beyond it.

Beyond ego, beyond mind identification, there is simply awareness, more and more subtle levels of awareness. This is what you truly are, this is where freedom lies.

9. In two words, be present. Completely be here in this moment.

This is true meditation, the path to enlightenment. It is about giving up your fantasies and your memories and living in the now. It is about bringing your attention back to this moment again and again every time you get caught up in your thoughts.

Then life gets really beautiful. Everything begins to be taken care of. You become happy, loving, peaceful, blissful. Not as an ego. But as bliss itself, as love itself. You become a channel for the divine. This is true meditation, the path to enlightenment.

Blessings,

Kip

Kip Mazuy - For more information about how you awaken yourself into incredible states of peace and bliss click this link The Calling CDs for Spiritual Awakening

Kip Mazuy is the creator of Bliss Music and Ocean Euphoric, an audio meditation program that washes you in enlightened presence, making it easy for you to experience deep states of peace in meditation. For more information and free teachings on meditation/self realization go to http://www.bliss-music.com

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