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ripoffhitman

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Posted at: 7/22/07 07:35 AM

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Anyone here buddhist, or just know a lot about it, because I have a lot of questions concerning it. I know there have been a few threads about buddhism, but they don't seem to go into the area I am questioning.

In buddhism to truely reach nirvana you must stop craving everything, and the only way you are suppose to do that is by following the eightfold path, in which describes how to do so. But to stop craving, what is the difference between craving and having, or wanting and needing, that makes nirvana reachable.

The path is suppose to stop from craving, but if people stopped say craving love, how would buddhists get married, or if we stopped desiring thirst, would not all buddhists die? Or is this not important enough to change and rather a person should just ignore these areas, or is it important that stopping craving is not possibly without stopping things that cause life, or keep it.

If you do not know what I am saying, answering to this thread is probably not useful to me, but I don't have the power to stop spammers or flamers. But if anyone can say anything to help, I would appreciate it, I understand there has to be atleast 10 bad posts before I might get a useful one.


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only a handful of people have reached nirvana and you cant have any relationships with people to reach nirvana that all i can answer

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Craving is different from needing. You don't crave necessitates like food unless you need them, which is the purpose of the path.

There is a war going on in you're mind. People and ideas all competing for you're thoughts. And if you're thinking, you're winning.

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oh and also some monks go into meditation for months without doing anything not sleeping eating or drinking

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You gotta be kiddin' me, lol, so I guess nirvana is something rare, most buddhist focusing on the non suffering part. Huh, that sounds strange, a religion that doesn't say follow this and you're better off than everyone else.


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I'm a Buddhist, however i don't know much. I converted about a year and a half ago, after my parents went OTT with Christianity and shit, so i've just started relaxing, beleiving in re-incarnation, and learning the Buddhist way.

Yeah. It's all true. Seriously.

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At 7/22/07 07:45 AM, Searp3nt wrote: I'm a Buddhist, however i don't know much. I converted about a year and a half ago, after my parents went OTT with Christianity and shit, so i've just started relaxing, beleiving in re-incarnation, and learning the Buddhist way.

Yeah. It's all true. Seriously.

Hum, it just seems weird what buddhists really focus on. I mean, what do people think other than the reincarnation, like say ur buddhist searpent, but like u curse, which is one of the things you are not suppose to do, if you are to follow the eightfold path. Do any non extreme buddhists really belive in most of the religion? I'm just a little confused.


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At 7/22/07 07:48 AM, ripoffhitman wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:45 AM, Searp3nt wrote: I'm a Buddhist, however i don't know much. I converted about a year and a half ago, after my parents went OTT with Christianity and shit, so i've just started relaxing, beleiving in re-incarnation, and learning the Buddhist way.

Yeah. It's all true. Seriously.
Hum, it just seems weird what buddhists really focus on. I mean, what do people think other than the reincarnation, like say ur buddhist searpent, but like u curse, which is one of the things you are not suppose to do, if you are to follow the eightfold path. Do any non extreme buddhists really belive in most of the religion? I'm just a little confused.

Well, as i say, i'm not an extreme Buddhist yet, i hardly know anything about it, yet i pray to Buddah, i belive in re-incarnation etc.

The swearing, however, i can never drop. Ever. Not even for Buddah.

Ok. My sig pic is utter shit. I know. My profile banner and what not is utter shit. I know. This is utter shit. I know. But honestly, do you really give a fuck?

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At 7/22/07 07:50 AM, Searp3nt wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:48 AM, ripoffhitman wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:45 AM, Searp3nt wrote:

The swearing, however, i can never drop. Ever. Not even for Buddah.

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At 7/22/07 07:48 AM, ripoffhitman wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:45 AM, Searp3nt wrote:

Hum, it just seems weird what buddhists really focus on. I mean, what do people think other than the reincarnation, like say ur buddhist searpent, but like u curse, which is one of the things you are not suppose to do, if you are to follow the eightfold path. Do any non extreme buddhists really belive in most of the religion? I'm just a little confused.

I'm not sure what your asking but i thinkj the answer is evenn if you dont follow the eightfold path you will still be reincarnated but as a lesser creature i think

oh and a bit of buddha wisdom, hitler was a buddhist thats where the swaztika comes from its a buddhaist symbol

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Does anything about me leads you to propose that I know anything about Buddhism?

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." -Buddah

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Understandable, the religion seems pretty understanding from a lot of different perspectives, it seems to have a lot of support for itself, unlike other religions that just need to keep using excuse after excuse to support themselves. And not stopping cursing for buddha,I totally agree with that being the best quote ever lol.


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At 7/22/07 07:55 AM, BuddhaGeo wrote: Does anything about me leads you to propose that I know anything about Buddhism?

Your aura.

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At 7/22/07 07:56 AM, Searp3nt wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:55 AM, BuddhaGeo wrote: Does anything about me leads you to propose that I know anything about Buddhism?
Your aura.

Nothing else?

look at profile hint hint

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At 7/22/07 07:58 AM, BuddhaGeo wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:56 AM, Searp3nt wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:55 AM, BuddhaGeo wrote: Does anything about me leads you to propose that I know anything about Buddhism?
Your aura.
Nothing else?
look at profile hint hint

Umm...your si...your userna...your level icon.

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In order to reach the Nirvana that Buddhists speak of, you either have to be really antisocial, or go away far from your homeland and live in an isolated cave until you die of hunger. I'm not putting down Buddhism, but that's just what you need to do.


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And the Swastika wasn't a buddhist symbol, it was an ancient anglo saxon symbol for wealth and prosperity.


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At 7/22/07 07:50 AM, Searp3nt wrote:
Well, as i say, i'm not an extreme Buddhist yet, i hardly know anything about it, yet i pray to Buddah, i belive in re-incarnation etc.

First of all, Buddhists aren't supposed to pray to Buddha. Such a thing is a modern advent. Secondly, not all Buddhists believe in reincarnation.


The swearing, however, i can never drop. Ever. Not even for Buddah.

Yeah, I don't really think you're Buddhist. I think you just like to think you are because you think it's cool at this moment, yet you don't really know what you're getting into at all.


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Type in your question to this magical answer-box.

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my dads buddhist he tells me stuff

i cant handle this but i cant handle anything else my oldest mistake is based on me and not on my grave


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I have a question about buddism, if you die and get re-incarnated as a "lesser being" what happens when you die next?

I was planning on killing the smartest, strongest, coolest guy in the world, but then I realised there are laws against suicide

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its ment to be u come back as a new born child not a lesser being like a animal

i cant handle this but i cant handle anything else my oldest mistake is based on me and not on my grave


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At 7/22/07 08:22 AM, Calrk wrote: I have a question about buddism, if you die and get re-incarnated as a "lesser being" what happens when you die next?

When you die and become reincarnated, after you die, you either keep going to more lies, or you reach nirvana, the time to reach nirvana and number of lives is dependent on you past life, that's all I know.


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Nope. I'm 100% Christian.

i know, i know, my profile rocks, no need to tell me

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Buddhism sounds like its a religion that wants you to ,waste all the time you have here on earth in this life preparing for the next life & never actually getting out & really experiencing the life you now have.
That to me is MENTAL RETARDATION.
Bloody hell, why deprive yourself & do without, on a possible chance you may come back as something better.
How the F'ck do you know whether or not ,you are not now back as something better & your wasteing it by depriving yourself of living a full life.
Months of meditation, starvation... moving off to live in a cave, so you can gain enlightenment.
Why not just find a nice high bridge or building & jump.
years wasted doing nothing, or a few seconds falling & you will have accomplished the same thing.
A wasted oportunity, to have made a decent life -NOW-for yourself.

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Doubt your going to find any buddhists here, might find a couple of tryhard teenagers though.


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At 7/22/07 07:58 AM, BuddhaGeo wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:56 AM, Searp3nt wrote:
At 7/22/07 07:55 AM, BuddhaGeo wrote: Does anything about me leads you to propose that I know anything about Buddhism?
Your aura.
Nothing else?
look at profile hint hint

Your usernam-I mean your signiture.

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buddha is a king who didnt want to be worshiped.. and everyone does anyway...

hmmmm bit silly

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Buddhism seems like the only sane religion, if I were to follow one.


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I belive 100% in Bhudda's teachings, but I'm not willing to make the sacrifices necissary to follow them.

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