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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ilaine who wrote (26230)5/28/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
The vast majority...One can speak with some authority about such things if one is familiar with the sources. If I told you that the original Buddhists conceived of Nirvana as the extinction of the self, but that gradually it was conceived by most Buddhists in positive terms, as a state of bliss, I would be speaking with some authority based on a pretty extensive reading of Buddhist texts and scholarship on Buddhism. I would not, however, say "we" because I do not identify with it...
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