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Enlightenment = When "matches" and "box" meetInterested in your thoughts on it?
In my opinion.
E.g. Christ Jesus, the teacher of Mysteries.Interested in your thoughts on it?
In my opinion.
This going to sound strange i think since i see my self as a Buddhist, But no enlightenment can not be thought, only realizedInterested in your thoughts on it?
In my opinion.
Interested in your thoughts on it?
In my opinion.
Interested in your thoughts on it?
In my opinion.
Interested in your thoughts on it?
In my opinion.
It can be taught. Since enlightenment is a state of mind, a person is capable of setting the conditions for another person to experience it.
Can it exist?
That there is a close association between claims
of having experienced enlightenment and physical
changes in the functioning of the brain has been
established over the past 30 or so years by
Andrew Newberg and several other neuroscientists.
Enlightenment is not necessarily associated
with god. A significant, but unknown, percentage
of people who have apparently experienced it
are atheists and/or explicitly deny it has
much of anything to do with deity.
In sum, "enlightenment" gives every appearance
of being a natural event brought about by changes
in the functioning of the brain, especially as
regards the parietal lobe, the frontal lobe, the
thalamus, the amygdala, and the striatum.
What triggers those changes remains a mystery.
Also, and please correct me if I'm wrong, Andrew references atheists that have had such experiences.
No, it cannot be taught. "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink."
Also, and please correct me if I'm wrong, Andrew references atheists that have had such experiences.