How often have you heard that to achieve some measure of spiritual enlightenment you have to "let go of your worldly attachments?

I personally also subscribe to this but my questions are:

1. Does it have to be so difficult?

2. What is the source of these attachments in the first place?

3. Is there a blueprint by which anyone could achieve this?

The answers I have come up with are as follows:

1. No it doesn't have to be so difficult. Many spiritual traditions however have promulgated the idea that enlightenment is a long and arduous process that only allows the virtuous few through its gates. Unfortunately this has been promoted more as a way of discouraging the masses from reclaiming their true power and thus as a form of social control. All of this is unnecessary and undesirable in my view.

2. All attachments are based in the sum total of all the beliefs we harbor about ourselves, others, and the nature of our reality. In particular the most relevant beliefs are about who we "think" we are.

How often have you heard the expression "We are only human"? Well probably more times than you can count on both hands, correct? This is often meant