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re: What Do You Know About Buddhism?
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:23 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:23 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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I would be hanging out with her and absorbing every thing she could teach you. I guarantee she is full of life knowledge and wisdom. Not to mention she is probably interesting as hell.
Or she has money that you want to inherit?
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Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:25 pm to Traffic Circle
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Or she has money that you want to inherit?
Well that doesn't sound very Buddhisty.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:25 pm to Traffic Circle
Yeah that too. Icing on the cake.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:28 pm to DeathValley85
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What Do You Know About Buddhism?
Buddhism has helped me find the one thing I've always really wanted in life, peace of mind.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:30 pm to constant cough
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Buddhism has helped me find the one thing I've always really wanted in life, peace of mind.
I'd like a piece of my mind too. Actually, the whole mind would be better, but I'll take just a piece.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:33 pm to DeathValley85
Yes. Guy was from China. We talked about it, but it was way different from Christanity. I can't remember the details. But it was interesting.
This post was edited on 6/23/14 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:34 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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I would be hanging out with her and absorbing every thing she could teach you. I guarantee she is full of life knowledge and wisdom. Not to mention she is probably interesting as hell.
Oh yeah. Unfortunately she lives on the other side of the country from me, so I've never really been able to spend as much time with her as I would like. She had flown in for a family reunion, and I spent most of the time sitting with her trying to learn about her ideas about things. I picked up some ideas that I still think about.
It really is a radically different place culturally where she started in her life to where she ended up. Her family was a really conservative, methodist, southern family from north Louisiana, and she really had to go against the grain of expectations to wind up in a place in life where she felt comfortable. I have a lot of respect for her.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:35 pm to SabiDojo
Oh Sabi 
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:40 pm to Peazey
There is a lot of satisfaction and alienation alike when you go against the grain of the cultural beliefs you were born in to. Good for her! 
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:41 pm to DeathValley85
I know a fair bit. I'd say that I'm Christian that anything else, but there are tenets in Buddhism which I find superior to any other religion. Also I think Christianity and Buddhism are much closer than people realize.
Also, remember Buddhism is an off-shoot of Hinduism. As a result, the entire striving on the mystical side is enlightenment to end your life-cycle. Your essence of being goes and joins nature.
Buddhism is as much a philosophy though as it is a religion. Depending on which group you talk to, there are gods or there aren't gods and all sorts of differences. The divine isn't super important in Buddhism.
What does matter is you as an individual and your path in the world. Moderation and understanding is key.Seeking enlightenment is key. I forgot a bunch of stuff but that's a start.
Also, remember Buddhism is an off-shoot of Hinduism. As a result, the entire striving on the mystical side is enlightenment to end your life-cycle. Your essence of being goes and joins nature.
Buddhism is as much a philosophy though as it is a religion. Depending on which group you talk to, there are gods or there aren't gods and all sorts of differences. The divine isn't super important in Buddhism.
What does matter is you as an individual and your path in the world. Moderation and understanding is key.Seeking enlightenment is key. I forgot a bunch of stuff but that's a start.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:43 pm to AUCE05
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way different from Christanity
I mentioned in my other post, I thought they were very similar. I took a religion class as an elective and I saw Buddhism as very similar. They're both about enlightenment. In Christianity, it's about enlightenment of God and Buddhism, it's about becoming self-enlightened.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:44 pm to DeathValley85
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What Do You Know About Buddhism?
Is there an old white dude with a beard looking down on the U.S. making sure people stay in line morally? Or is this the one with the peaceful fat Chinaman?
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:52 pm to tigerpimpbot
The peaceful fat guy. I much prefer him to the angry old white guy.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:55 pm to DeathValley85
Think my friend I used to get loaded with big time....
He stopped
Breathing on me twice Is
Now a Buddhist in BR I think. Originally from
Watson about 34
He stopped
Breathing on me twice Is
Now a Buddhist in BR I think. Originally from
Watson about 34
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:57 pm to athenslife101
Once I looked at Buddhism/Taoism more in depth I realized that its teachings are basically identical to gnostic Christianity. Or original Christian teaching before it was twisted and perverted by the Roman government and the Emperor Constantine into what it is today. Jesus basically taught the same thing Buddha taught. All religions sprang from a fundamental spiritual essence. I think Buddhism is the closest thing to that original essence.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 11:05 pm to Rickety Cricket
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It's better than Christianity and Islam.
I'm Christian, and
:kige:
Posted on 6/23/14 at 11:07 pm to MrFreakinMiyagi
You follow one religion but believe another religion is better? Wtf
Posted on 6/23/14 at 11:08 pm to MrFreakinMiyagi
Then why not be a buddhist?
Posted on 6/23/14 at 11:24 pm to genuineLSUtiger
I wonder if the quote by Buddha in the OP is accurate or an accurate translation? Angels, demons, heaven and hell are pretty much western beliefs aren't they?
Posted on 6/23/14 at 11:25 pm to DeathValley85
I know it's long been the cool edgy thing to be into by people who fashion themselves as very important deep thinkers, and desperately want others to see them as the same.
This post was edited on 6/23/14 at 11:26 pm
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