[Aquinasfan]

using a Buddhist filter Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pretty much the same thing except with a different order of worship and a different selection of stories and verses.

You need a new Buddhist filter. Any Buddhist with half a brain would prefer to live in a Christian society than a Mohammedan society.

[muawiyah]

Whether any Buddhist would prefer any particular non-Buddhist-dominated society to another is not a real question.

The objective is to eliminate the world of desire - not to satisfy desires.

You knew that, right?!

Good grief, you folks are going to make me go back to sleep under that vine leaf and see if satori in real time is actually possible, or if it's just an eternity on the mandala, and I am trapped in an illusion.