Enlightenment In Teenagers

[2000]

I am currently 16. I want to persue enlightenment. I am currently cutting out many distractions (videogames, porn, etc) and wish to "experience" the Truth. 

Is enlightenment in your teen years easier? Harder? Is it more likely to happen to a teen? Does the fact that you're younger and more impressionable contribute to a smoother "ride"?

[Prabhaker]

9 minutes ago, 2000 said:

Is enlightenment in your teen years easier?

Youth is the best time for inner transformation because youth is the most flexible time. Children are more flexible than young people, but they are not so understanding. They need a little experience. Youth is exactly the middle; you are no longer a child, no longer ignorant of life and its ways and not yet settled as an old man. You are in a state of transition, and the state of transition is the best time.

Of course most of them cannot sit still like an old man too long, but there is no need to sit like an old man for longer duration. 

Someone asked Buddha, ”How shall we meditate?”

Buddha replied, ”Whatsoever you do, do it with awareness; this is meditation. Walking, walk attentively, as if walking is everything; eating, eat with awareness, as if eating is everything; rising, rise with awareness; sitting, sit with awareness; all your actions become conscious, your mind does not travel beyond this moment, it remains in the moment, settles in the moment – this is meditation.”

[Leo Gura]

@2000 Just do it and see what happens. No one knows what your journey will be like.

[Afonso]

I'm 17 man, doing a lot of consciousness work!

[Max_V]

Haha, I'm 17 and on the journey too. 

Good luck!

[electroBeam]

@2000 1000000000 times easier than doing it after 25 yrs old.

[Cjaryo]

Hi, I'm 14, I am also pursuing enlightenment, but I'm starting by fixing a few other things in my life. I am currently working on my pornography addiction and a meditation habit. I believe that right now, I can do what I can to self-actualize to a point where I am ready for enlightenment.