If you are reading this, chances are your spiritual intelligence is present, but not strong enough to deliver Realization. By the way, the term “Realization” is used here, as opposed to the much more restrictive and above all, symbolic term “Enlightenment.”
You study, you meditate, there’s some progress. Yet, deeply within yourself you feel the weakness of your spiritual backbone. Desires and fears, pains and pleasures make their presence felt, and are the sole creators of your “now” reality. They determine your presence. Being honest with yourself you know that Realization appears to be as remote as ever.
Yes, your spiritual intelligence supports the belief that you’ll finally get “there.” Still, the same intelligence makes you questioning the progress and gets easily frustrated with the slow peace of consciousness purification that stagnates time and time again. Why the stagnation?

The answer is simple: your spiritual intelligence is lacking. No, no reference here to the numerous errors one makes; neither to following false gurus and teachings, or actively participating in one of the fashionable spiritual circuses. Your spiritual intelligence failed to recognize this formidable bastion of resistance created by your ego, called your existence.
You know that you are; you say “I am.” But, do you know that you and I are not, and our existences are nothing but a part of the illusion spun by the consciousness?

You, or rather your ego, are unwilling and unable to deny your existence. Why? Lack of spiritual intelligence. Haven’t you taken notice, or just cannot comprehend Jesus Christ’s words, as related by Mark 8:34-35 (NIV) “Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said, ‘If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.’”

Or, the Diamond Sutra: “No nose, no ears, no eyes, no self, no being, no life, no soul, no world. We refer to it as a being, but there is no being…”

What? You rather wouldn’t touch anything related to religions? Then listen to these:
Jacques Derrida: ‘The “I” -subject is a product of language discourse and exists in language only.’

Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘The ”I” is part of a language game.’

Nisargadatta Maharaj: “Don’t feel that you are a personality and that you can do something for yourself. There is no person.”

Isn’t it remarkable, that sources so divers, all convey the same message?
Pure and simple, deny yourself, or to be exact, your self.
The only way to Reality is to loosen the grip that this illusory reality has on your consciousness. Right now, you are living in a (consciousness) bubble, while Reality lies beyond it!
What surrounds you is unreal, it merely is a play and you are watching it.
Don’t feel like an actor. Your home is not the screen. Your home is beyond the theatre.

You can walk away in this very moment. The play will go on; nobody will take any notice. This is Realization that you so badly desire. And you don’t have to follow the long and winding path of spiritual search that can take lifetimes.
Step out of the theatre; deny imagination the power it has over you!
Know yourself as a being “out of this world” and you’ll get all the Nirvana there is… if you still value a reward.
Said Nisargadatta Maharaj: “You must know your own being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious.
Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.”
When somebody asks you: “Hey guest, what are you doing in my world?” answer: “Only visiting.”