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To: haqihana who wrote (79601)	5/22/2000 6:48:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Buddha reached the highest level of consciousness and became one with the intelligence of the universe - basically what you would call God. That seems to be the same thing as being God. He's as much God- for example-as Jesus would be God. The cool thing about Tibetans is that they believe we can all attain this buddhahood, if we work at it. A Buddha's mind is what theists have thought the mind of God would be like- knowing every detail of everything in an infinite universe totally aware of everything, hence by definition inconceivable, incomprehensible, to finite ignorant egocentric consciousness. It is fundamental that enlightenment contains omniscience. The process of one's own life is to awaken such omniscient awareness within oneself, to transcend the egocentered animal condition to become a perfect Buddha.

To: haqihana who wrote (79601)	5/22/2000 9:20:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

I've been avoiding the Bush thread; the discussion there became a bit too circular for me. It would seem to me that either there is a God, whom various peoples worship in ways and under names of their own choosing, or there is no God, and people have a common need to invent one. I have no personal evidence that either of these is true, and I'm not sure that anyone has a right to declare anyone else's belief a misconception. It is possible, of course, to challenge the logic of another's belief, but since belief is generally a matter of faith, not logic, it is seldom very useful. There is, of course, a right to classify actions based on belief, and occasionally to prohibit them. The notion that God, if God exists, would favor one name or belief over another seems rather more human than divine to me.