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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:

>
> Oh? Says who? Was it, by any chance, a fallible man who said that
> they were under the influence of God?
>
> Or does God go to each Christian in turn and personally say
> "Hello, God here. You may remember me from such Commandments as
> "Thou shalt not kill" and "Only Eat Fish on
> Fridays". I'm here to tell you that every writer of the Bible
> was under my personal influence. Have a nice day now."

~pop~

Funny...you seem to be too 'busy' to answer this one. Or even acknowledge it.
Coward.

Forest Fan wrote:
> He never even claims to though. FX2? Where did the inspiration for
> that name come from?

He wouldnt know if it was god because he was hindu.
As for the name, the inspiration came from god...........Oh f**k !

Forest Fan wrote:

>
> He never even claims to though.

Ever hear of something called "humility"? How d'you know that he simply didn't want to make a big song and dance about being divinely inspired?

Light wrote:
> Flockhart wrote:
> i have a
> certain respect for anyone who can make up there own mind(never
> thought i'd say that about you) and turn their back on what they
> have
> been brought up with.
>
> Oh hey, so would I were it not for the fact that he claims to be
> Jewish as well. Seriously, I've tried several times to pin him down
> on this; he won't have it that he is merely a christian with a
> semetic racial background. He bangs on about being one of Gods chosen
> people, the Jews, too. Which is, to be frank, impossible.

Right FX2(i love that name) which is it:
Christianity or Judaism
Keep it simple !

Flockhart wrote:
> But can you prove he didnt have god in his ear, telling him the
> eightfold path, no he was hindu i believe(i may be wrong)
> How does buddhism contradict christianity, answer me that FX2(a new
> nickname for you)

He never even claims to though. FX2? Where did the inspiration for that name come from?

Forest Fan wrote:
> Flockhart wrote:
> Says who ?
>
> Says me, unless you can prove otherwise. Besides, I thought Buddha
> didn't teach about God. Did he?

But can you prove he didnt have god in his ear, telling him the eightfold path, no he was hindu i believe(i may be wrong)
How does buddhism contradict christianity, answer me that FX2(a new nickname for you)

Flockhart wrote:
> i have a
> certain respect for anyone who can make up there own mind(never
> thought i'd say that about you) and turn their back on what they have
> been brought up with.

Oh hey, so would I were it not for the fact that he claims to be Jewish as well. Seriously, I've tried several times to pin him down on this; he won't have it that he is merely a christian with a semetic racial background. He bangs on about being one of Gods chosen people, the Jews, too. Which is, to be frank, impossible.

Forest Fan wrote:

> Light, at the end of the post, I actually humbly asked a question to
> confirm my thinking.

Mm, shame that question came only after you've spent 2 days slagging off Buddhism though. Perhaps you should have 'humbly asked' before you made your mind up?

So...too busy to answer questions eh? Too cowardly more like...

My understanding is thus, FF is Hebrew/semetic and was jewish in faith, he then decided(wrong word) that he wanted to be christian in faith(no offense meant FF)
Now despite him annoying the hell out of me sometimes, i have a certain respect for anyone who can make up there own mind(never thought i'd say that about you) and turn their back on what they have been brought up with.

Forest Fan wrote:
> Did he?

Light, at the end of the post, I actually humbly asked a question to confirm my thinking.