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From Buddhanet: Is it possible to prove the four noble truths through western "scientific" reasoning? The Four Noble Truths: 1. There is suffering. 2. Suffering is caused by desire. 3. It is possible to cease desire and thereby end suffering. 4. The way to cease desiring is the noble...

Well, just got finished with this thread, I flip up Salon.com, and low and behold, the same assertions: "...at the same university -- they have some chutzpah over there -- the University of Virginia, Ian Stevenson is now retired from the psych department. He's not a Buddhist, he wasn't a Hindu...

OK. Who took him? I'm going to turn out the lights and whoever did just put him back under the tree where he belongs. from here. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/nepal.missing.ap/index.html JPK ETA: I just realized the title of this thread makes it look like the Buddha had...

news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/21/wbuddha21.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/21/ixnewstop.html Oh dearie dearie me.

Hearing that yet another actor has been chosen to play James Bond got me thinking about the buddha and thier teachings. There is no self: all that there is is transitory, so the self is an emphemeral illusion placed upon an everchanging world. The 'self' is much like the character of James...

Hi, I'm interested in the historical Buddha, which most people think about when they refer to the Buddha. The figure that is credited with giving the four noble truths and certain supernatural phenomena. In Buddhism they talk about taking refuge in the three jewels: the Buddha, the dharma...

Consider the following ... Buddha head intertwine amongst root. IF friend assert that this is might be work of nature or special forces. Questions: 1. How to ascertain that it is human-made? 2. How to go about logically and critically convincing the a friend that it is indeed human-made? I...

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Okay, Lifegazer put up your mitts and show yourself. You said you would denounce the buddha, and while his advice to me would be to pretend that you were once my mother, I am not a buddha. Put up, dude, go ahead, show us all how you have a greater philosphy than the buddha. Question One: Why...