3 tips

[brother neil]

you meet someone and you have five minutes and can only give them three tips on how to attain enlightenment, they would be?

just a question
seeker

[Manipura]

1.  Give up all control.
2.  Accept everything exactly as it is.
3.  Question your identity by asking the question:  Who am I?

[Divineis]

1. Be with the in breath
2. Be with the out breath
3.

[tadeas]

explain deep meditation in about a minute

[Jack]

1. Surrender everything.
2. Love everyone.
3. Repeat always.

[emc]

1. Never try to attain enlightenment - it's impossible
2. Meditate twice daily
3. Get to know thyself - question your thoughts, emotions and behavioural patterns

[Kirtanman]

quote:Originally posted by tubeseeker

you meet someone and you have five minutes and can only give them three tips on how to attain enlightenment, they would be?

just a question
seeker

1. Use all available means (devotion, breathing, meditation, chanting, tantric practices, inquiry, etc.) to access the living silence – the aware space between thoughts and perceptions, thus exiting the conceptual prison of apparent limitation emanating from mis-identification with egoic individuality.


2. Sustain awareness from within the living silence, in (apparently) increasing increments, until:

A. There is thoughtless awareness (realization) of the True Nature of Self as this Living Silence.

B. There is thoughtless awareness (realization) that All arises from and gives rise to this Living Silence; the True Nature of Self - Consciousness & Bliss.

C. There is thoughtless awareness (realization) that the source of this ever-fresh, ever-living reality - the source of the Living Silence of True Nature, which is indicated by the terms "Enlightenment", "Ultimate" or "Supreme" - cannot be known; the exquisite, utter freedom of liberation in this life can only be … living, now – being, now -loving, now as ever.

3. Welcome Home. Enjoy Living, Unbound.


AUM Hridayam - Heart Is Where the AUM Is,

Kirtanman

[Balance]

1) "Listen up!"

2) "Stop looking at the clock!"

3) "This will cost everything!"


(Sorry, just joking around )

[Scott]

1. Stay still
2. Stay present
3. Stay awake

I like Meg's answer too!

[eputkonen]

Meg's answer is pretty close to what I would say.

1. Let go of everything and cease doing.

There is not anything you can call "mine".  Also cease making effort, Enlightenment is the "natural state" - so to speak.  There is nothing you can do to regain a natural state.  Also, the concept of "I am the doer" is an obstacle...let that go as well.  In letting to, let go of the past and future...cease refering to either unless necessary to the task at hand.

2. Accept what is as it is for as long as it is.

Resistance to what is not only causes our suffering,b ut also reinforces and stengthens the ego.

3. Inquire - "who am I?"  

If you are seeking..."who is the seeker"...the answer being "I am" and then ask "who am I?"  When a thought arises ask "To whom does this thought or thoughts arise?"...and "to me"...and then ask "who am I?"  In this way all thoughts are destroyed and there is a constant turning inward.

Namaste,

~ Eric Putkonen

[jupiter]

1. Simplify your life and meditate
2. Cultivate deeper and deeper awareness
3. Let go

[Anthem]

EMC's and Kirtanman's posts resonate with me, here's my perspective:

1- Desire - cultivate a tremendous desire to awaken and end suffering.

2- Use every tool you can find: inquiry, the 8 limbs of yoga built on a foundation of deep meditation.

3- Embrace the flow of reality as your highest ideal, live in the here and now with your entire being.

[thimus]

1 dont harbour any thought
2  "      "     "    "
3  "      "     "    "

(from Nisargadatta, Tolle, Sri Aurobindo etc.)

[Balance]

Okay, I'll try again:

You are the awareness in which all things appear and disappear. All of these "things" include your individual identity; perceptions, thoughts, emotions, physical objects; the dance of energetic manifestation that shimmers within the awareness that you are.


Ultimately there is no temporal, energetic thing that keeps you separated from That awareness you are, excepting your temporary fascination with things.


Reside as the space of awareness in which the temporary fascination of things plays and enjoy the life that happens ever new, holding onto nothing, for no-thing is what you are.

[yogibear]

Favor twice daily AYP practice.

Favor Self Inquiry during the day.

Favor full engagement in all aspects of daily life.