From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 13:34:10 MDT
>From: "Sehkenenra" <Sehkenenra@netzero.net>
>At the same time that I realized all this, I understood something
>else- that the calm I had experienced at Mt. Shasta *was* the
>empowerment that I was looking for. I started to recall a
>Buddhist concept that I had read about in a book by Robert Thurman
>a year before- that of the Bodhisattva- someone who takes this
>calm out into the world, and acts from it, rather than avoiding
>the world like a monk. I understood that if I could develop and
>work from a higher state of consciousness, it would help me be
>more rational, compassionate, and effective. Maybe, then, I
>really can do something to help the world.
>-Nicq MacDonald
>Transhumanist with Buddhist tendencies
Yes, you've achieved some insight here, one can have Buddhist
tendencies and not be a monk. And of course Buddhism is about
actiions rather than words.
The monks lifestyle is not for me either, but meditation and my Zen
Buddhist studies, have given me a completely different perspective
on life (still evolving) and a great measure of peace.
As I've argued here before the purpose of life is to help others.
Life has meaning when lived according to it's purpose.
Brian (Extropian with Buddhist tendencies)
Member:
Extropy Institute, www.extropy.org
National Rifle Association, www.nra.org, 1.800.672.3888
SBC/Ameritech Data Center Chicago, IL, Local 134 I.B.E.W
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