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Part of what I have been researching is awakenings. Their are many kind of awakenings, or transformations of hte mind/mind and body, in religeons philosophical veuws and such. Buddhism states that suffering comes from losing things you are attatched to, and wanting things you don't have so they believe if you can transform your mind to not want, not think, not desire, and controll your thoughts, and emmotions entirely, then you will have reached enlightemnent, and can focus all of your mind onto reflection on the universe.

Many religeons have a kidn of salvation ritual, or process that transforms the soul, and in most cases is supposed to send you to heaven or hell.

Many people who have mindsets similar to the full metal alchemist believe that you can transform yourself, and change yourself in any way as long as you put enough effort into it, argo the rule of alchemy(to gain somthign, you always have to sacrafice somthign of equal value).

Many people believe you can train your mind to think faster, have better cognitive skills, and many other things through practice, training, and effort.

In the matrix if you let go of all your concepts, ideas, and beliefs and only see what is infront of you, you could decide what is real, what is not real, and break free from the world.

I wanted to share these with you, and maby discuss about them. Maby you can post your own transformations you have invented or researched about.

I disagree. The more you push against an object physically the more resistance you get, and it is true that you can more easily fail the harder you work physically, but a properly trained mind will never fail. It might make wrong dicisions, misjudge somthing, or make an improper calculation, but it will never fall down and break like a real object can.

Also I just didn't think it was very important that I post the eightfold path, or the dhamapada.

I just use all of these examples to prove to myself that I can transform my mind in different ways with enough training.

I totally agree, its just with your body you are fighting over the three laws of movement, lack of oxygen, and lack of energy. With mind all you have to fight against is lack of energy, denial, impatence, and fear. SOmone reaching enligtenment might grow impatent. Somone who was being taught how to increase their thought speed might grow impatent and use denial to beleive that it can't be done. Or some people might just fear change, or get tired.

But what I mean is their are a ton of ways to transform your mind, I want to learn about them.

Awakenings.. hmm... an interesting concept.

I think that an awakening is an exculsively personal experience. This is one reason why I don't agree with religion.
Many of us have those moments of revalation. Where after certain events, or lack of events, or whenever, your mind is clear and a new way at reach. It's very hard to explain this in a general sense.. because it's anything but general. I guess I can say.. those moments that you and your life are changed and grown. The feeling of mental growth. There are some revolutionary ones, that change your outlook or lifestyle, and those that change your ideas and habbits. There's no scale though. They're all equally essential.

So, like I said, I don't agree with "a way" to Enlightenment. There is no book that could possibly lead you to personal salvation. Now, don't get me wrong, you can learn from every one of them, take their wisdoms into your life and make them part of you, but they are not THE answer. Your life and experience and self is the answer, the way, for you.

But that vague concept of Awakening.. it's quite beautiful and mysterious, which every one of us understands very well but can't explain clearly through words. It is an essential part of our lives.
(this is a great subject)

Indeed, it is one to learn from.

Wow... intense. That is quite interesting.. I've never heard of someone actually having that feeling, although it is something often imagined.

Maybe.. (this is just an intuitive guess) it came from some part of you that wants to tap into another side of your life. Like.. maybe you have a desire to go somewhere completely new and have a new chapter in your life that is different from the one your in now. Or maybe you want more from yourself, and your not fullfilling your own expectations..
I hope that is not entirely false. I'm just trying to make sense of it.
I could only imagine how that would feel.. it's intriguing.

that is a good interpretation. i cannot explain the experience that i had more than that and like i said it is now a memory, while it was real then now i wonder and all i have is the memory of its reality. i have had many subtle experiences that might seem as miraculous as this but i do not take pride in them instead they fuel my further curiosity and study and in time i understand them in different ways.

btw I_27_04 that is an admirable affirmation.