The first secret to enlightenment is knowing that
everything we do has an identity ("I"). I have my liking dogs "I" or my
enjoying golf "I", or even my job "I". Obviously these "I's" are very
useful in everyday life and even enjoyable most of the time,
unfortunately they are very restrictive to our awakening to
enlightenment. Mostly because we think of our "I's" as our self, which
they are not, they are simply constructs of our brain. These "I's" want
us to think that what they think with our organic brain is all that
there is. Whatever the "I's" know is rubbish compared to what the
higher consciousness can know; the "I's" are distracting, filling up
our brain and getting in the way of thinking with our higher
consciousness. The "I's" feed the babbler in our brain, talking about
how we feel from our particular "I's" perspective. The organic brain
has all these activities, leaving no room for the higher consciousness
to function. This is why we need to diminish our "I's" in order to
reach and build up our higher consciousness.
Here is one way to
help diminish your "I's": Refer to yourself as the body. When you
usually say, "I feel like, or I want..." replace the 'I' with 'the
body'. So, now you are saying, "The body feels like, or the body
wants..." This will help you detach from feeling that your body and the
identities you have constructed for it are all you are.
The next
major secret to enlightenment is achieving non-thought. What I mean by
non-thought is shutting off the organic brain so you can think with
your higher consciousness. How do we achieve non-thought? Meditation is
a good start. However, any effort to have non-thought is a good way to
have non-thought. The key is to relax into it. If the babbler starts
yakking away, just slip past it with an easy going, "Okay I understand
you want attention, but I'm going to give my brain a rest for a few
minutes." Don't try to fight the babbler directly; this will create a
quicksand effect. Instead, use tricks and techniques to help quiet the
babbler. Obviously meditation is one of the better-known techniques,
some other but lesser known techniques are: 1) Think about your body.
Feel everything your body is feeling all at the same time, your legs
resting on a chair or bed, your feet in your shoes, the clothes on your
body. 2) Listen to as many sounds as possible, all at the same time.
Hear the clock ticking and the dog barking in the distance, etc.
Having
no "I's" and achieving non-thought are two of the most basic secrets to
achieving enlightenment. There are many more secrets to enlightenment,
if you are interested, just click on the link that says
HowToBendReality.com and follow the other links.
“In the reference frame of light, there is no space and time. If we look up at the Andromeda galaxy in the night sky, we see light that from our point of view took 2 million years to traverse that vast distance of space. But to a beam of light radiating from some star in the Andromeda galaxy, the transmission from its point of origin to our eye was instantaneous. 
