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Or not.
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And will you tell all your friends
You've got your gun to my head?
This all was only wishful thinkin',
This all was only wishful thinkin'.
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I sorta agree with that quote.
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I think everyone misinterpreted that quote or something, because it really is a good quote. Talking isn't what makes the man.
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
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Nagarjuna > Siddhartha.
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just because a person's gay doesn't mean he's a fag!"
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( Forgot My Name )
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Quote: from Wilder at 1:53 am on Nov. 9, 2009
 Nagarjuna > Siddhartha. 
I really don't know the difference yet. How can you tell?
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
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Wilder
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Quote: from Forgot My Name at 11:56 pm on Nov. 8, 2009
Quote: from Wilder at 1:53 am on Nov. 9, 2009
Nagarjuna > Siddhartha.
I really don't know the difference yet. How can you tell?
The difference? I mean, they're different people. Siddhartha Gautama was the first Buddha and founded Buddhism; Nagarjuna came centuries later, founded the Madhyamika school, and was instrumental to Mahayana thought. He's often considered a second Buddha/ the most important figure in Buddhism after Siddhartha, and he's also my personal favorite philosopher. He dealt a lot more with ontology and complex philosophy than Siddhartha did, and proposed some radical shifts in thought that (in my opinion) overcame some of the biggest philosophical flaws in Buddhism.
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Quote: from Wilder at 2:00 am on Nov. 9, 2009
Quote: from Forgot My Name at 11:56 pm on Nov. 8, 2009
Quote: from Wilder at 1:53 am on Nov. 9, 2009
Nagarjuna > Siddhartha.
I really don't know the difference yet. How can you tell?
The difference? I mean, they're different people. Siddhartha Gautama was the first Buddha and founded Buddhism; Nagarjuna came centuries later, founded the Madhyamika school, and was instrumental to Mahayana thought. He's often considered a second Buddha/ the most important figure in Buddhism after Siddhartha, and he's also my personal favorite philosopher. He dealt a lot more with ontology and complex philosophy than Siddhartha did, and proposed some radical shifts in thought that (in my opinion) overcame some of the biggest philosophical flaws in Buddhism.
I've heard there were 28 Buddhas, I don't know who all of them are, and what makes them each unique. Do you know any good Buddhist books? I've read the Bardo Thodol and I like the ideals of the afterlife they present. Do all Buddhist hold similar ideals?
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
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this quote does make sense if you think about it
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Wilder
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I've heard there were 28 Buddhas, I don't know who all of them are, and what makes them each unique.
Exactly what "Buddha" means and how many of them there are changes pretty dramatically depending on what form of Buddhism you're discussing.
Do you know any good Buddhist books?
What kind of Buddhism are you interested in, and what are you trying to learn about? The only book on Buddhism that I absolutely love and cherish if Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, but that's an in-depth analysis of one of Nagarjuna's works that gets heavily into his philosophy but doesn't deal much at all with Buddhism broadly.
I've read the Bardo Thodol and I like the ideals of the afterlife they present. Do all Buddhist hold similar ideals?
Not really, no. I'll admit that Tibetan Buddhism is certainly a weakness of mine (most of my focus has been on Mahayana Buddhism, particularly in Japan) and I haven't really studied the Bardo Thodol much, but there's a very wide diversity of beliefs about death and rebirth in Buddhist thought, and The Book of the Dead gets into some very specific teachings. I'm sure some elements of it are pretty universal to Buddhist thought, but others are unique to that particular manifestation. What specific ideas did you like?
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