~How do you become enlightened and awakened?~You must know the source of your suffering as it comes from ignorance which is the ego~the ego loves attachments to cover itself and be content in a world of its protection~just like a seed that has a shell that protects its valuable fruit within~yet when that seed has been planted and nurtured in good soil its feeling inside says it no longer needs attachment to the shell that protected it all the long~the less desire that the seed within wishes to have the more it slips away from that falsehood from that shell and begins a journey to its own living truth~then once it has cracked it open it no longer needs to belong to that outer world it was prisoner to~it now has successfully awakened itself it always was~its true self~