Quote Originally Posted by Omnis Dei View Post
Like I said it's not my goal to define enlightenment. I'm simply trying to cut out excess words and traditions from a valuable practice so it can be laid out in a broad and simple way.
As I said before, that's basically what Buddha did. He took all the mystical crap out of Hinduism and made Buddhism.

But another tip I have found pretty good is one I read a couple of years ago.
Which is how to clear your head of the internal dialogue.

You basically just practice with not thinking with your internal voice for a couple of seconds.
Then you just slowly build it up, 10 seconds, a minute, a minute thirty etc.

I've mentioned this to a couple of people and they think that that will basically stop them from being able to think. But it's the exact opposite. It allows you to think much more quickly because your not talking yourself through everything. It is a massive and common misconception that it helps you.

After you realise this, and quiet your inner dialogue, it is much easier to live in the moment, in fact it almost comes naturally.