You often here people say they are awakened or they have had an awakening experience.  As we evolve spiritually the process to full consciousness does include an increase in awareness.  The development of the wisdom mind is a staged process and one will feel an awakening of the spirit.  One may discover their world is run by a few greedy elite people, or that we have a larger space family and that is part of the process. However, enlightenment is perpetual bliss.  It will hit you like a lightening bolt and never go away. 

When you are governed again by the spirit or the Buddha-nature within everything changes.  You still live in the world as it is, but your consciousness can freely access the cosmic consciousness of one.  Every morning when you awake it will feel like an instant rebirth.  You will walk around gigling all day and be like a child in spirit.  Do not mistake those child-like Tibetan monks as being goofy.  Many are fully enlightened and the bliss seems child like to a judging Western mind. 

The path to enlightenment does not have to be so difficult. The great way can be broken down into four seeds and they include:

- Develop a deeper understanding of all things

- Dropping desires,appearences,attachments, distinctions and fears

- Develop Universal Compassion and a Loving Heart

- Allow the mind to rest freely at the correct time

These may sound like they are easy to master, but allowing the mind to rest freely is the greatest obsticle one will have to overcome.  It takes a special technique to shift the inner orb of light called your spirit from a lower chakra to the crown chakra.  In the past many sages and masters spent decades in solitude and practise to attain enlightenment.  If you can channel prana and stop the mind on a dime you will experience the bliss much sooner.  You do not have to sit in rigid meditations for hours if you understand the full process.  The attached book explains the techniques you can use to attain enlightenment much sooner.

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