Meditation won ' t help , nor is it the cause of a realization . You have to recognize your own self nature . We constantly identify our self with something small . I want to be enlightened . You never ask the question Who wants to ? and try to understand the nature of your self . We believe there is more than one cause for our suffering like this event is the cause of the next one , and so on . Cause and effect . This is a belief , and an excuse to not deal with the real root issue of our suffering . There is only one reality and that reality is yourself . You have to recognize this . There isn ' t a percentile to compare one reality to another reality if there is only one reality . You can ' t be in the top percentile because there is only one reality and it is equally all inclusive . There is no such thing as a me separate from everything else .