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To: Siena Dreaming
Buddhist, yes, but I'm only in it for the epistemology, I'm also an atheist. Buddhists believe in nothing... but they believe precisely in nothing, a difficult thing for a Westerner to do. That is why a Zen master will tell you he's "nothing special." Buddhist liberation is like a limit in calculus, you can approach it infinitely, but you can never get there unless something breaks in your frame of reference. Sort of like the "Hotel California," don't ya think?

Or don't ya?
2,592 posted on 10/27/2005 12:08:51 PM PDT by Nameless (I am the Bodhisattva of Tautological Truth!)
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To: Nameless
Buddhists believe in nothing... but they believe precisely in nothing, a difficult thing for a Westerner to do.

Thank God for the Westerners.

2,598 posted on 10/27/2005 12:11:03 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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