The Top 10 Causes of Enlightenment

(and how to transcend ANY experience of suffering)

Written by Jafree Ozwald
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"Enlightenment is the moment when the wave realizes that it is water." ~Thich
Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment is not something that can be given to you. Whatever that has been
given to you, can also be taken away from you. You must find this great spiritual
liberation within yourself, and learn how to cultivate it's presence in your life, as you
are the master of it all in the end. Your enlightenment is destined to find you in this
lifetime or the next. It is on it's way, you simply need to get out of the way and
understand how to receive it. When the mind stops all searching in the outer for
fulfilment and finally comes to relax home in your very core, the realization is
discovered that enlightenment was always there, just buried deep within your being.
We all experience suffering in life because of one little thing...ignorance. If you take
the word "ignore" and add a little dance to it, you get ignorance! When we ignore the
Truth of our infinite being, our ignorance expands and soon transfers us onto the path
of suffering. To transcend your ignorance and find spiritual freedom in your life again,
the intention for a deeper awareness is needed. We must welcome the most profound
state of consciousness we can imagine. By simply opening up to our own
consciousness, we can release anything instantly that would make us suffer.
Nothing more than pure awareness is needed to transcend this illusion and rediscover the liberating truth of who we are.
Each moment of our lives has the potentiality to become the most liberating healing
enlightening experience we can handle. The more open, ready and willing we are to
receive something magnificent, the easier and faster the magic comes flooding in.
When you are ready for enlightenment, it will find you. You don't have to strive for it.
In fact, the harder you work for it, the further it moves away from you. Just make it
your priority to totally relax and enjoy your life.
Fully surrender to your real self. Explore who you truly are, what you really want,
and what your purpose on Earth actually is on a spiritual level.
The following information is deeply transforming when applied daily to your life.
Using these suggestions each day will take you closer to tasting the awesome
experience of spiritual enlightenment. This great enlightened experience is a massive
shift in consciousness, so go easy on yourself. You may have been trying to wake up
for a really long time, possibly lifetimes, and the great awakening can come suddenly,
like a bolt of lightening in the most unexpected time, place and way.
"Life is wild. Love is wild, and God is absolutely wild.
Those who are wild always reach enlightenment." ~Osho
To get the most out of this article, breathe each one of these 10 bold messages below
into your heart. Inhale the feeling of information so that it spreads out into every cell
in your body. Let it sink deep into your being so that it becomes a way of exploring

the world.
You can make an affirmation out of it and make firm to yourself that this (or better) is
now true for me in this moment of my life.
10. Be open to the new and release your ego's need to be right about anything.
Being right can be the hardest ego trip to get off of, and yet causes a major amount of
suffering. If the ego believes it is wrong about any one little thing, it starts feeling
insecure that you basically could be WRONG about everything in your entire life!
Whatever the mind believes is true, always becomes our reality in that moment. The
colored lens you perceive your world with today, becomes how the world tends to
appear for you tomorrow. If everyone around you from birth to death says that Life
is this hard, painful and unfair experience, and you believe them, then how will you
ever learn how to relax, let go, trust and enjoy living in this amazing Universe?
If we think we must fight to get what we want in life, we end up manifesting a very
serious challenging ride. To experience love, enlightenment and freedom we must step
over our ego and be open to a completely new experience of life in each moment.
Your inner and outer world is one massive playground. Learn how to be free, and
have fun within your life. Think of each new day as your chance to step on a very
interesting and comical life stage. You can choose any hat to wear, lens to see through,
or fascinating role you desire to play!
. Let go of doing and practice simply being.
It has become abnormal for people to just relax, sit still, be silent and alone. "Do-aholics" have become the societal norm. Many people avoid meditation because they
think it is boring, don't have time for it, or feel they have failed at it, trying to quiet
their mind after a few random attempts. When we realize that ALL of our suffering,
chaos and illness in life is caused by our inability to quiet the mind, we will spend
more time practicing being present and less invested in doing something thinking it
will take us somewhere better than being here.
Eventually, with enough time spent practicing being present to the now, we discover
our real infinite nature inside. We realize we are spiritual beings and have everything
we were looking for and soooo MUCH more! The greatest mystics in history all
discovered enlightenment when they were simply being quiet, relaxed, and fully in the
here now. When their big awakening happened, they were not trying to do anything!
This is the great mystery of life, and mastery of the mind is by far the greatest
achievement mankind can ever have. The experience of being here now, feeling ONE
with the infinite, all-powerful and omniscient Universal-God force is enough. It is
empowering and highly enlightening to re-define all those old definitions of what it
means to get somewhere special in your life.
8. Being free from our family's unconscious myths and society's deep ignorant
programming.
When you were a child, what was communicated to you about enlightenment?
Anything? Did anybody have a clue what enlightenment was or how to experience
an enlightened state of bliss? Did anyone ever show you how to open your chakras,
meditate, or communicate with God? Most likely, everyone around you was more or

less spiritually lost, and then telling you what they believed would make you happy,
loved and successful in life. They wanted the best for you, yet ended up
communicating to you how to be unhappy and unenlightened through their actions,
belief system and behaviour.
If you go back and think about your childhood, what do you remember was the typical
standard story you were told, that make you feel like a failure, isolated, unloved or a
sense of separation?
What belief system did you inherit from your family that created massive limits on
how you feel about yourself and life today? You may have heard some messages like,
"You need an education to become somebody, there just isn't enough time for that, we
cannot afford that, you cannot be, do or have xyz, you are just too much of a blah
blah blah!" Naturally we are all very gullible as children, yet if we did not become
identified with our family's limiting belief system we may not be here. If we didn't
think like they did, they might have stopped feeding us and pushed us out of the tribe.
We needed to think small, do what we were told and obey the one in charge, in order
to remain accepted, loved and alive.
From the moment we were born, we all received the idea that this unenlightened state
of life was the norm. You may have seen all the insane world problems on the nightly
TV news, and thought that this was how the entire world operated and mass suffering
was just the way things were. As we became teenagers, we either rebelled or became
assimilated into the unenlightenment system, and fell deeper into the story of
separation. The more we accepted or rebelled from our community, the greater our
feelings of lack, isolation and struggle grew inside. Being surrounded by
unenlightened people was an enormous lose-lose situation.
To make matters worse, we were forced to attend some jail like "education system"
which worked about 3% of our brain's potentiality and was designed to churn once
brilliant creative kids through a social formatting grinder so they become hard
workers for the system.
We were taught wonderful lies that everyone believed to be true, like how a human
life expectancy should only be 75-100 years old, when really our DNA can last at
least 300 years. We were told that we would have to work really hard to have a home,
limited energy, resources, food, knowledge and power.We were never taught to rebel
against authority, think freely, independently, or even consider the possibility of
becoming spiritually enlightened.
The school system made it illegal to teach children how to find a deep inner
connection with the Infinite Source. It was not important to learn how to meditate,
heal your body through your breath, how to make tantric love, master your mind
through totally quietness and stillness, enjoy all our emotions, know the infinite truth
of who we are, or how to achieve absolute inner freedom and bliss.The society all
around you is still hypnotizing adults and their children to believe that success is all
about achieving a higher level of status, money and career. Our poor education system
is still in its infancy, and simply has never had a large dose of enlightenment so it
doesn't know any better
There are many awakened beings in the world today who know the truth, that real
success in life is defined by how liberated, spiritually rich, loving and enlightened you
are as a human being. The world is slowly waking up, one person at a time. People are
beginning to see that happiness is not something you can attain from striving to

achieve the right income, status, career, marriage, or diploma. Striving to reach these
things will only distract you from walking your spiritual path and discover the most
rewarding life experience of them all.
Remember, whatever limited ideas that you received from your family or school
system were THEIR limitations and not yours.
When you stop and give back those beliefs, you can reclaim your spiritual freedom
again within yourself. The limiting beliefs handed down from your family run deep in
your blood and it will take every ounce of awareness inside you to see them.
Freedom will occur when they are fully seen, felt into and released from your
mental/emotional body as well as your subconscious mind.
We must forgive all of these people of their unenlightened programming if we are
ever to be fully free. It is all karmic and nobody is to blame. They simply were not
taught by their parents how to live in a constant state of wonder and amazement in
their lives while doing daily tasks like changing diapers, cutting the grass, going to
work, and paying their bills. When we forgive them and see how they were not raised
by fully self-realized self-actualized enlightened beings, we can easily forgive
ourselves for the limiting beliefs and negative feelings about ourselves that we
inherited.
7 Be outrageous and stop hiding from your spiritual power in some safe little
fishbowl.
We can often hide from our life mission and spiritual purpose in our mind. Thoughts
are safe, while real life experiences "out there" seem dangerous, scary and unsafe.
Life is inherently insecure because death is always potentially around the next corner.
We might find it easier to not take risks, and go for our big dreams in life for fear of
getting hurt or lost in the wild ocean. When we only choose to stay safe, comfy (and
basically dead) inside our little comfortable fishbowls of old habits, we only do the
things that once gave a sense of confidence and security, and stop growing
completely.
Life is this beautiful natural chaos with a divine cosmic structure. Our lives are this
daily adventurous rollercoaster ride that we need to learn how to enjoy. Life is meant
to be fun because you just don't know exactly how things will turn out. You won't
know until the last second how you will respond to what someone says, or how you'll
make the most important decision you need to make. Each experience in your life is
here for your spiritual growth. Each boring, exciting or normal experience is meant to
expand you, help you see and feel the entire ocean around you now, and yes jump out
of your safe little fishbowl and SWIM in the ocean of existence! It's easy to do,
simply stop thinking about your life, and actually start enjoying the one you're living,
feeling and breathing in now!

6Embracing and loving every fear that arises.

The less fear we are holding in the body, the more we can relax and open ourselves up
to experiencing a more expansive enlightened state of consciousness. All fears are
simply emotionally contracted thoughts invented by a mind that still believes it is
disconnected from the Source. It's good to know that the word F.E.A.R. actually
stands for False Evidence Appearing Real.
To transcend any fear, first discover what you are deeply afraid of. You can access any

fear by opening yourself up to another person intimately in conversation, letting the

other peer into you. Soon you will be able to see deeper into yourself and understand
exactly what you are running from in your life. Once you know what you are running
away from, run towards it and welcome it into your heart with a big embrace. This
approach will dissolve any fear instantly, and in time it will be completely released
from your body. The more practice you have in embracing your fears, the easier it
becomes to find total relaxation, so that you can access your full spiritual connection
within your consciousness.
5. Stop trying to continuously improve or fix yourself.
This may seem contradictory to the previous message, yet its actually complementary.
How often do you find yourself trying to replace your negative thoughts and feelings
with positive ones? How much of your life has been spent trying to heal yourself or
your mind? Is all the effort and energy you're putting into improving you actually
making you relax into the experience that you are already divine, already sacred,
deeply lovable, and already connected to the God Source?
The result from continuously fixing, improving and healing yourself is perpetuating
the feeling of, "I am not ok exactly as I am". Any unconscious self-improvement habit
is just another egoic disease. The real problem is not what it appears to be. Go to the
root of the matter, which is this dualistic mind, and uproot the entire "I'm broken and
need to be fixed" emotional program. Realize that WHO you are is neither these
negative or positive thoughts, yet the consciousness and awareness behind them. Only
through pure awareness will you be able to stop the habit of trying to change, fix and
improve yourself, and instead surrender deeply into the spiritual sacred core of your
being where self-realization is.
4. Enjoying the practice of quieting the incessant chattering and repetitive mind.
The mind is a limited conglomeration of ideas and beliefs about who we think we are,
and what reality is. It behaves much like a computer that is un-aware of itself, and just
spits out information that was programmed into it. The mind is like a machine so it is
not conscious. The mind is a horrible master and a wonderful servant. We need to
train the mind, so that we can use it instead of being used by it. It cannot remain in
the present moment. It must keep moving with ideas that engage the past and future to
remain in control of you.
When we quiet the mind, we regain control of it. The more we can practice paying
attention to the stillness and silence that is behind the chattering mind, the less power
the mind has over you, and the less you'll get trapped in your limited ego or identity.
The word E.G.O. is really just an acronym for Excluding God's Omnipresence.
Through the constant awareness of our ego we can by pass the mind and access this
omnipresent divine spiritual energy inside us. We can discover our natural
enlightened state. We become aligned with the bigger Truth that we already are
infinite spiritual beings, who have been given the gift of a limited physical human
expression with illusionary challenges that make us grow. When the mind is quiet, we
can enjoy this divine play, and find real peace with the entire dynamic. We find full
acceptance that we are both the ego and spirit, and know all is perfect as it is.
3. Releasing all attachments and aversions to everyone and everything.
As humans we tend to get attached to (or avoid) certain thoughts and feelings we
BELIEVE will make us happy or unhappy. We get into habits of resisting life, and

trying to control our experiences so that we get what we think will ONLY bring us
joy, and avoid what makes us unhappy. We even create these patterns based on what
others say, feel, and believe and ignore our own inner voice and connection. This
attachment and avoidance habit manifests because deep down we feel disconnected
from our spiritual source. We are still trying to find some form of security by
controlling our reality.
When we were young, we saw others avoiding what is painful and remaining
attached to what is pleasurable, and believed this is how it should be done.
The enlightened state shows up when we listen to our heart and stop being attached to
or avoiding anything. When we understand that life is like a pendulum, designed to
swing and give us both experiences of pain and pleasure, we can transcend them both.
By accepting this natural pendulum swing, we become free from being the one who
always needs to be in control and running the show
Pain and suffering are just the Universe's way of telling us to "LET GO" and trust the
flow. The purpose of feeling pain is not to create more suffering, yet for you to wake
up and create an immediate new life change. This change is necessary for you to
evolve and eventually drop all identity with your ego-trip so you can return to your
spiritual source. By allowing yourself to let go of your mind's attachments and
aversions, you can genuinely enjoy your life again. You then start energetically
communicating to the Universe that you are abundant, thankful, happy, beautiful and
free! This experience allows you to expand in consciousness and deepen your
connection to your Infinite Source inside.
2. Being free from the illusion that you're separate from the Infinite Source of
love, energy and connection.
Feeling separate and disconnected from our Universe is the unenlightened state. We
become enlightened when we are continuously aware how deeply and intimately
connected we already are. The illusion of separation is not an accident or
coincidence, the Universe is extremely intelligent. Every feeling of separation is
needed so that coming spiritually home is that much more amazing. The polarization
of separation/unification breeds a truly juicy alive and incredible experience of life.
When we become enlightened, we will see the full illusion and know how to stop
manifesting another experience of loss, failure or separation again.
The illusion that we are not connected to the divine is karmic.
It stems from lifetimes of our mind's attachment (and avoidance) of limiting ideas of
who and what we think we are. Once we untangle ourselves from our fun sticky
karmic mess, we will remember that we were always ONE energy, one sea of
consciousness, and always connected with our Source. All experiences of suffering
simply drop away when we pay closer attention to who we truly are.
All suffering comes from a lack of awareness of our divinity. Once we stop forgetting
our eternal abundant nature, we begin stepping forward into a life over flowing with
synchronicity, ease, grace, love and knowing our divine unlimited nature. Waking up
is as simple and easy as remembering that the Sun is always on, always bright, and
always shining somewhere.

1. Know that who you truly are is already awake, enlightened, loving and free.

When it comes down to it, we already have everything we need inside us to

experience all the love, joy and happiness we could ever desire. All efforting to get
anywhere better than here, is simply divine misguidance. The Universe is already
amazing. You are already amazing, and this moment is totally amazing. By sitting in
awe of this amazingness that is already here now, we wake up to the spiritual
immensity of our being. We suddenly stop playing small, end all of our suffering, and
continuously step into the vastness of our totality.
The pathway into enlightenment is a perpetual journey into the now. This wonderful
yet treacherous journey involves getting to know ourselves very intimately, gently and
spiritually. When we break free from the hard cold calculating mind, we realize who
we truly are is love itself. We then find out our life's spiritual mission and soul
purpose is to radiate this love everywhere we are! When we know our real nature is
the Divine itself, we become desire-less, selfless, and effortlessly remember how
deeply, intimately and infinitely connected we already are to the spiritual source
inside it all.
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