Could you please tell me what is the minimum amount of time to spend in meditation daily to become enlightened?
Yes.
Be nice, no?
It was so easy.
It's like a diet, no?
But it's not really like that.
It's not a matter of time.
It's a matter of quality of mind.
If one is truly mindful, then it can be accomplished in a matter of days.
But it's not a matter of time, it's amount of times that you're mindful, because you can only be mindful in one moment.
You can only cultivate meditation in the present moment, and that's once.
So meditation is cultivated based on times, number of times that you do something, and frequency.
There's an optimum frequency for meditating.
that Mahasi Sayadaw said, once a second.
If you're able to be aware of one thing per second, it's a good estimate or estimate of
rough estimate of how often you should be optimally be mindful, which of course he says is not possible in the beginning, but it's something that you cultivate and develop.
Actually, there are people who claim to get good results by doing meditation in the morning and in the evening and are able to develop states of... I've even led people to the point where I got the feeling or got the impression from what they said that they actually had some state of realization.
You might even say maybe they're an enlightened being, a sotapanna or something.
But I'm not...
Not something that one can be sure of.
The biggest problem with your question is that everyone is different.
You can't put a judgment on that.
Some people can be mindful just a few... One monk, three steps, and he was enlightened.
So frequency is important, but it should be frequency of times and it should be quality of mind.
The point of doing it frequently and of doing it over the long term is to create the habit and to create the nature of the mind that is clear, that is alert, that is
There's no word for it in the English language that I know of that is able to see things as they are.
يَتَعَبُدْ يَعْنَدَ السَّنَّةِ