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I'll put this up while i'm in the right frame of mind to post it, your views are wlecome.

FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
The Four Noble Truths represent the core of
the teachings of the Buddha, and are as follows:

The First Noble Truth
Unsatisfactoriness and suffering exist and
are universally experienced.

The Second Noble Truth
Desire and attachment are the causes of
unsatisfactoriness and suffering.

The Third Noble Truth
There is an end to
unsatisfactoriness and suffering.

The Fourth Noble Truth
The end can be attained by
journeying on the Noble Eightfold Path.




NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH
Right Understanding
Right Thinking
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Concentration

1. Right View

See things as they truly are without delusions or distortions
for all things change. Develop wisdom by knowing how things
work, knowing oneself and others.

2. Right Intention

Wholehearted resolution and dedication to overcoming the
dislocation of self-centered craving through the development
of loving kindness, empathy and compassion.

3. Right Speech

Abstinence from lies and deceptions, backbiting, idle
babble and abusive speech. Cultivate honesty and
truthfulness; practice speech that is kind and benevolent.
Let your words reflect your desire to help, not harm others.

4.Right Action

Practice self-less conduct that reflects the highest
statement of the life you want to live. Express conduct
that is peaceful, honest and pure showing compassion
for all beings.

5. Right Livelihood

Avoidance of work that causes suffering to others or that
makes a decent, virtuous life impossible. Do not engage
in any occupation that opposes or distracts one from the
path. Love and serve our world through your work.

6. Right Effort

Seek to make the balance between the exertion of following
the spiritual path and a moderate life that is not over-zealous.
Work to develop more wholesome mind states, while gently
striving to go deeper and live more fully.

7. Right Mindfulness

Through constant vigilance in thought, speech and action
seek to rid the mind of self-centered thoughts that separate
and replace them with those that bind all beings together.
Be aware of your thoughts, emotions, body and world as they
exist in the present moment. Your thoughts create your reality.

8. Right Concentration

Through the application of meditation and mental discipline seek
to extinguish the last flame of grasping consciousness and develop
an emptiness that has room to embrace and love all things.

Light wrote:
> Forest Fan wrote:
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> Heh. Oh dear Light. Hebrew in background and Christian in faith.
>
> My oh my, you've changed your tune...not insisting on being called
> Jewish any more? You ARE afraid of the rabbi's answers, aren't you...

Heh. Classic Light. When all else fails - a bit of mockery, eh? No, I am Jewish and I follow the whole Bible, hence Hebrew Christian. Got it?

Forest Fan wrote:

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> 1) What gave God the right?
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> He's our Creator.

Says you.
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> 2) Shut up
>
> Nope.

Then answer the questions I've asked you in the other threads. Coward.
>
> 3) He hardly demands total devotion to himself - it's rather more
> for
> personal enlightenment.
>
> What for?

So that a person can be a better individual.
>
> 4) Like Light said, you are the most transparent person ever on
> SR...
>
> Most assured, yes, I would agree.

Ah, you agree you're a dumbassed troll with no mind of his own? Sweet; some honesty from you at last!

The sagacious one wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> Here's a good game for you: use the word 'Buddhism' in a sentence,
> and
> try not to make it about religion.
>
> I met my mate the other day Budd, his mum is well fit.

(clap,clap, clap,clap, clap,clap,clap, clap,clap,clap) Hehehhe. Nice.

Forest Fan wrote:

>
> Heh. Oh dear Light. Hebrew in background and Christian in faith.

My oh my, you've changed your tune...not insisting on being called Jewish any more? You ARE afraid of the rabbi's answers, aren't you...

RDRR

monkey_man wrote:
> Here's a good game for you: use the word 'Buddhism' in a sentence, and
> try not to make it about religion.

I met my mate the other day Budd, his mum is well fit.

Forest Fan wrote:

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> A question and a lot less than the dozens Light asks.

Ooo-oooh! Get you with your handbag out!

Saying "morph into the bloke" isn't a question, is it dear boy? It's an attempt to show contempt. I'm sure buddhists everywhere are quaking at the prospect of defending their philosophy against a blinkered and hypocritical coward who can't even defend his own manufactured faith.
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> And why is Buddha such a good person. What did he ever do for anyone?

Inspired people to think for themselves and seek personal enlightenment.

Come to think of it, why is Jesus such a good person? All he did was get nailed to a tree. And the lives he supposedly saved pale in comparison to the lives ended in his name...

Forest Fan wrote:
>> 3) He hardly demands total devotion to himself - it's rather more
> for
> personal enlightenment.
>
>

Why do you follow God?

Forest Fan wrote:
> A question and a lot less than the dozens Light asks.
>

Which I have answered. "Morph into the bloke" is not a question. Its sarcasm.

> And why is Buddha such a good person. What did he ever do for anyone?

"The personality and teachings of Gautam Buddha, the founder of this faith, have illumined the lives of millions of people in Japan, China and Southeast Asia."

Light wrote:
> Forest Fan wrote:
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>
> And who gave him the right to start making up rules then?
>
>
> Same person who gave you the right to call yourself Jewish and
> Christian when it's a theological impossibility?

Heh. Oh dear Light. Hebrew in background and Christian in faith.