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Re: Are we too eager for re birth?
What I find interesting is the difference in perspective between Westerners today and Indians from 2,500 years ago. In the time of the Buddha life really was suffering, most people didn't see their 4… (View Post)
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Re: in the name of capitalism
I'm happy to eat GMO, DNA and protein is the same whether it's been modified or not, it all gets broken down into it's constituent amino acids and nucleotides anyway. The chances of a protein from a … (View Post)
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Re: Does Buddhism deny the vernacular common idea of Soul?
(Quote) I can only answer that question. It's because people can't imagine not existing, it's literally impossible, you can contemplate non-existence but you can't experience it. In life we see thing… (View Post)
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Re: Yidams are they 'real'?
(Quote) You could look at it like this. The body creates an I to better assure it's own survival, the personality allows the body to interact with its environment in a way that non-personal organisms… (View Post)
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Re: Yidams are they 'real'?
I'll echo Citta's reply, they are real as "I" am. I'm a fantasy dreamt up by my brain, a fantasy that is self-reinforced through bodily interaction with my environment as well as a thought-… (View Post)3