How will you reach enlightenment?

Question

Which path / methods do you follow?

Thanks everyone :-)

And why please?

Answer 1

One moment and one breath at a time:))....and by realizing that we are what we are looking for: not a thing in time an space, but that timeless and space in which things float: awareness. Just a 180 degree turn is needed; a turning away from the objects in space(thoughts) to realize what it all floats in. Going inside is the path.

Krishnamurti stated that Truth is a pathless land. True but...

on the other hand....heheh.. there are many methods and paths. If dogma and ideologies work, then I would recommend that, but most people study religion and get caught up in studying the finger instead of where the finger is pointing to. I like the Buddhist eightfold path. It's more a science of discovery than a religion.

I like meditations. There are so many but I think a person should pick what best suits them and keep it going until it's not needed anymore. Mediation, along with any path or method is only the boat to get us across to the other side of the river. When we reach the other side, we can put the boat down.

For me, I like just watching thoughts go by. Just watching them pass, being indifferent to them. This builds a separation and I don't get caught up in the drama of the mind as easily. It brings about dis-identification with thoughts as being all we are. It brings in more space--and space is blissful. I have other things but i already wrote a few novels for you....so...rest your eyes now sister:))

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Answer 2

Recently, I've been reading a few books on spirituality. The more I read, the clearer it becomes, you can't attain enlightenment by simply reading about it. I feel rather like Jack Skellington, searching for the meaning of Christmas. I think, no matter what religion you are, you have to read, but you also have to meditate. These are both very important. Read a wide variety of books and spend a fair amount of time meditating on the wisdom found inside. However, living is equally important. You can't spend your life in Churches and Temples or in Bookstores and Libraries. You've got to get out and get a sense of the real world and how it works. How can you know anything about the after life (whether there is one or not) if you don't know anything about this life? Jesus, Buddha, Mohamed, the Wachowski Brothers, these are all fingers pointing to the same moon. And as Bruce Lee often said, "don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."

Answer 3

There is no guarantee that I will reach enlightenment, even though I have set a course for it! I have found moments of peace and clarity of thought - epiphanies, if you like - along the way. Perhaps the most important thing is to want understanding and never give up searching. It is more difficult now that Nature is being destroyed for me to have peace and inner happiness, but man has always been in conflict with Nature, so the QUEST has to remove itself from the actions of man. My focus has always been respect for creation and gratitude for having a life to live. I look for opportunites to extend my sense of joy and peace to others - and I get the feeling I am being manipulated into doing it! (thank God)

Answer 4

First we have to clear up the hypothesis. What kind of enlightenment are you referring to? Are you talking about the Age of Enlightenment (The Age of Enlightenment refers to either the eighteenth century in European philosophy, or the longer period including the seventeenth century and the Age of Reason. It can more narrowly refer to the historical intellectual movement The Enlightenment, which advocated Reason as a means to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government, and logic, which, it was supposed, would allow human beings to obtain objective truth about the universe. Emboldened by the revolution in physics commenced by Newtonian kinematics, Enlightenment thinkers argued that same kind of systematic thinking could apply to all forms of human activity)? Or are you thinking how can we en light ourselves nowadays?
I will try to solve the last hipothesis. From my point of view and in regard with Maslow's pyramid, after we complete the need of our body (physiological needs), the security needs, and so on, man will concentrate upon the need of cultivating his/ her spiritual part by reading, even writing, meditating upon existential issues, going to theater, opera and the list can continue. The most important thing in enlightenment is to first discover and know us very well in order to enlight ourselves regarding the world and its characteristics.

I hope I could help you a little, but this is a hard question to answer and I think reading about Newton life you will find many more answers to you question.

I wish you all the best!

Answer 5

Hindu sage Pathanjali has given 8 steps to attain enlightenment.
They are difficult but the truth is that without crossing the 7steps the 8th(Enlightenment)cannot be attained.
I follow the guide lines of Pathanjali and I am still in the first step.

Answer 6

I once heard a Bodhisattva (Hindu holy man) say that all religions will lead you to the salvation that you seek, in that there wasn't just one path to enlightenment. Perhaps if everyone felt that way, many needless wars and tragedies could be avoided.

Answer 7

I will follow the road less travel and listen to those to which nothing is true and nothing is real my enlightenment will come from those that know that I am that i am for which there is no answer to come forth from those that answer without me

I am that I am and my enlightenment comes from within

Answer 8

i follow the only true path to "enlightenment", Jesus Christ!

John 14:6 Jesus answered him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

Answer 9

Peaceful co-existence, Least disturbance to nature, Staying a natural life style.

Answer 10

some most enlightened people i ever met were drunk rednecks,

some professors i had in college seemed actually clueless to the spirit world in any form or way...
like "if you cant define it... it dont exist"
that's all i got to say about that