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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (33965)	11/18/2002 4:03:02 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 39621

"you wouldn't have to be chopping wood and carrying water then....and washing your dishes after you have eaten , ...or transporting hay to your horses. So what are you to do in the meantime while being here on earth?" I don't do that for a living and for me it is close to what you would call Nirvana serving their needs. You know staying active and keeping fit and everything that goes with it. "And what would that "experience" be like ? I think you are intentionally missing the point of Jesus saying exactly the same thing as the Buddha. In fact he (Jesus) did so as closely as he could within the Hebrew religious framework and prophesy . Extinguishing emotions was not what Buddha was telling you, but to become empty to all selfish desires and become open to a greater perspective." Selfish desires makes the world go round. All the great art work and architecture spring from the selfish desire to improve on what already exists. "It is all a matter of semantics Joe, but you will find in most all the most deeply religious venues whether in the Vatican itself or some Eastern Orthodox Christian church , all the monks & priests practice with the tools taught by the Buddha . That is the art of meditation & contemplation , one thing that most people's lives are not found to have an excess of." Contemplation and meditation needs no sanction from the Vatican or Buddha. One does not need to pay off a monk or priest to make it work.