Is Enlightenment possible at any age?

enlightenment has nothing to do with age we can awaken at any point but I think that the more mature then we can awake it in any age age has nothing to do with it but that being said the more maturity we can bring to the path the more lived human experience we can bring to to our own awakening or to our own desire for awakening our own search for awakening I think it can make the whole process move much more quickly you know when were younger we're very understandably absorbed in our own hero's journey as a younger person we're very much focused understandably and reasonably in our careers on our sexual and romantic lives on bringing up our families we're very much attached to and involved with and in love with the world to form and even though enlightenment in an evolutionary context is ultimately about coming back and taking responsibility for the world of form before we come back we have to be able to let go and conditionally of it all first and letting go unconditionally means letting go unconditionally everything stuff our emotional and psychological trauma the the narrative already goes narrative which is our personal story our belief of the solidity of it all I believe in the absolute reality of it all it's at a certain point if we're going to truly be free and awaken to enlightened awareness it has to become apparent to us directly at the level of own experience that it's all a dream and when you have realized that it's all a dream you can reimburse it in it with an attitude of compassion and care from a place of deep and profound freedom and liberation that's not possible unless we've let go first and I think that uh an older person people when they reach their late forties fifties early sixties people who have lived for quite a long time lived through a few life cycles so to speak people who already suffered quite a lot and and have struggled and now how hard it is to be a conscious human being and truly understand simply put the challenge of being human the challenge of living a conscious life we'll be in a position to be able to let go in the kind of all-encompassing and dramatic what I'm speaking about they will be more likely to be able to do that then a younger person it's not to say the young young people can't because they can and they do and I'm just making a general statement and moreover I very I'm very passionate about an evolutionary possibility for postmodern culture itself where together we would learn to see the third stage of life as being that time where we we would be able to commit ourselves not toll not only to the evolution of our own consciousness but to the evolution of consciousness itself for the sake of the process itself in other words what if it a culture whatever Lola what if I would have had a cultural level Lola what if I had a level of our shared culture we all began to see the third and even the fourth stage of life not as the the dwindling end of the life process but a time when we're coming into potentially the most important part of the human experience a time when we could bring all of their our hard-won wisdom and maturity into the deepest and most profound a subtle level of the human experience which is the study of consciousness itself is the study of the self ultimately it's the study of reality and this is really a this is an idealistic fantasy of course but I have a vision of a transformational cultural context where we were all expected to turn within with great intensity and great focus and great inspiration in this later time of our life when we were in a position to be able to do it with the kind of commitment that would make all the difference and wouldn't it be interesting to live in a world where to make a bold generalization where older people really were more conscious were more wise and in this idealistic vision I'm speaking about we're truly enlightened that would make the world we're all living it together very different so this is something I'm very interested in