he is 81 yrs old, no children, lonely, has siblings but rarely meet. He enjoys my company very much, i was the only one spent weekends with him.
2007-01-17 14:14:21 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology
me and this guy i liked met eachother on a cruise. me and my best friend and this guy hung out this one night the whole entire night talking. but then this guy came to hang out with my best friend, and the guy i liked started hooking up with me right away.
was he just talking just because my best friend was there, and now we're alone so he wants to hookup?
2007-01-17 14:14:19 · 4 answers · asked by ashley r 1 in Singles & Dating
2007-01-17 14:14:16 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Baby Names
I have recently been diagnosed with mild scoliosis. I would like to know your experiences. What caused it? What medication and exercise have you been doing? What are you not allowed to do? How has it affected your daily life so far?
2007-01-17 14:14:16 · 4 answers · asked by Squeaks 3 in Other - Diseases
2007-01-17 14:14:06 · 9 answers · asked by SUPERMAN 4 in Diet & Fitness
2007-01-17 14:14:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
i spilled pink fingernail polish on a rug on the baige part, and i got the stain out with a little fingernail polish remover, and some shaving cream, and oxi clean, and then i had a big darker stain on the rug, and i used some more shaving cream, oxi clean, grease lightning, and resolve, and some other carpet stain remover, and water, and it is still a little damp, but it is still darker. it looks like a huge water stain or something. i need to know how to get it out or if when it dries up it will come out.
2007-01-17 14:14:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cleaning & Laundry
2007-01-17 14:13:56 · 7 answers · asked by Joshster 1 in Politics
Playing poker and having a little dispute! Lol!!
2007-01-17 14:13:55 · 8 answers · asked by sexygal8321 4 in Card Games
2007-01-17 14:13:51 · 5 answers · asked by inquirer 1 in TVs
1. People don't truly care about one another
2. People are not naturally loving
3. People are generally ignorant assholes
4. People kill each other in wars
5. Killing seems to be the way the rich and/or assholes keep others from expediating evolution
Seriously.....And don't give me the 10 commandants argument, because people kill animals and the commandant merely says "thou shall not kill," not " the humans shall not kill each other"
Not to deny that there aren't loving, caring people out there, or that people should just kill anyone, but what about drug dealers, evil people and the like.
2007-01-17 14:13:44 · 32 answers · asked by Morgan 2 in Religion & Spirituality
like draw a door and push and it moves...what realm would you choose and what would your new world be like????
2007-01-17 14:13:43 · 8 answers · asked by kowalley 5 in Polls & Surveys
Why is it... The Buddha never talked about the One God of the desert, the Judeo-Christian God? Does this mean that all Buddhists are atheists and don’t believe in God? Did the Buddha believe in God?
These are some of the questions I would like to try and answer today.
The Buddha was born 500 years before Christ, in what is now Nepal. His dad was a king, his mom was a queen, and his dad wanted him to take over the family business (the kingdom) when he got older.
The kind of world the Buddha was born into was magical. Everything seemed to be alive. The trees, mountains, lakes, and sky were living and breathing with a variety of gods in charge. If you needed rain you asked one god, if you needed it to stop raining you asked another. The priests of India did all the religious work, and got paid for it.
In India at the time of the Buddha you became a priest if you were born into the right family, and not because of the school you went to, or the grades you got.
There were other kinds of religious people as well.
Mendicants were men who left their family, friends, and jobs to find the answers to life. They did not live in homes or apartments, but lived under trees and in caves, and would practice meditation all day long. They wanted to really be uncomfortable, so they could understand what suffering was all about.
Many kinds of meditation were practiced by these mendicants. In Tranquility Meditation for instance, you think about just one thing, like looking at a candle or saying a word over and over. When the mind becomes focused in oneness, you experience a great peacefulness.
Even if the mendicants were sitting in the rain on a cold day, they were still content. They found in their meditation practice the essence of happiness.
Renunciation is when you give up all the things that make your life pleasant. Sometimes the people with money and power in India would buy a lot of stuff to make themselves happy and their lives more comfortable, thinking that happiness and comfort depended on what they owned.
When the mendicants could see their own suffering clearly, after many years of renunciation, they understood that happiness was not dependent on the things they owned, but the kind of life they lived.
Even all the gods in India could not end the suffering of one human being.
At the age of 29, the Buddha stopped praying to the gods to end his suffering and the suffering of others. He left his family and friends, went to the edge of the forest, took off all his clothes and jewelry, covered his naked body with rags of cloth, cut off his hair and started to meditate.
He became a mendicant, and It took him six years of hard work and much suffering, but in the end he was able to stop his suffering forever (Nirvana) and help others stop their suffering as well.
Did the Buddha believe in God, the One God of the desert, the God of the Christians, Jews and Muslims?
Well... No... He didn't... Monotheism (only one God) was a foreign concept to the Buddha, his world was filled with many gods. The creator god Brahma being the most important one.
At the time of the Buddha, the only people practicing the religion of the One God of the desert, were the Jews. Remember, it was still 500 years before Christ came into the world.
The Buddha never left India. The Buddha walked from village to village... In his entire lifetime he never went any further than 200 miles from his birthplace.
The Buddha never met a Jew... And because of this, he never said anything about the One God of the desert.
There is also nothing in the teachings of the Buddha that suggest how to find God or worship the god's of India, although the Buddha himself was a theist (believed in gods), his teachings are non-theistic.
The Buddha was more concerned with the human condition: Birth, Sickness, Old age, and Death. The Buddhist path is about coming to a place of acceptance with these painful aspects of life, and not suffering through them.
Please be clear on this point... The Buddha is not thought of as a god in Buddhism and is not prayed to. He is looked up to and respected as a great teacher, in the same way we respect Abraham Lincoln as a great president.
He was a human being who found his perfection in Nirvana. Because of his Nirvana, the Buddha was perfectly moral, perfectly ethical, and ended his suffering forever.
Does that mean that every Buddhist in the world is an atheist?
No!!! I have met a lot of Buddhists who believe in God. I have met a lot of Buddhists who don’t believe in God... And a lot of Buddhists just don’t know.
All three points of view are OK if you’re Buddhist because suffering is more important than God in Buddhism.
Sometimes a student will ask me how everything in this world got started... "If you don’t have God in Buddhism then who or what caused the universe?"
When the Buddha was asked how the world started, he kept silent. In the religion of Buddhism we don’t have a first cause, instead we have a never ending circle of birth and death. In this world and in all worlds, there are many beginnings and ends. The model of life used in Buddhism has no starting place... It just keeps going and going.
Now having said that... If you’re a Buddhist it’s OK to believe God was the first cause... It really doesn't go against the teachings of the Buddha, his focus was on suffering... It's also OK to believe science has the answer… Like the big bang theory, etc... Some Buddhist’s don’t even care how it all started, and that’s fine too. Knowing how the world started is not going to end your suffering, it’s just going to give you more stuff to think about.
I hope you can see that God is not what Buddhism is about... Suffering is... And if you want to believe in God, as some Buddhists do, I suppose it's OK. But, Buddhist's don't believe God can end suffering. Only the teaching's of the Buddha can help us end suffering through wisdom and the activity of compassion.
In his whole life and in all his teachings the Buddha never said anything about the One God of the desert.
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Also by Kusala
How I Became a Buddhist
Do Buddhists Go to Heaven
The Problem with Sex in Buddhism
Buddhist Enlightenment vs Nirvana
2007-01-17 14:13:42 · 1 answers · asked by Thomas 6 in Other - Society & Culture
2007-01-17 14:13:28 · 1 answers · asked by bluefairy0901 1 in Other - Computers
My boyfriend and I have been going out for 10 months. When we started going out, he was always paying attention to me alot and I really love how he has that energetic spark everytime he looks at me and he paid alot when we went out. Now he is in a debt and it is partially my fault. I paid sometimes, and I feel really bad now. Our relationship was on the line, and he blamed me for the whole debt. Now everytime we go out, I have to pay on my behave and starting to pay for his foods as well. When we see each other, we don't have that spark as much and we don't talk as much either. I feel like I don't get that attention anymore. I don't know what to do anymore, can anyone give me some advice on what to do?
Thanks =)
2007-01-17 14:13:19 · 17 answers · asked by lil_angel_ztar 2 in Singles & Dating
i thought it stood for randy knockout
2007-01-17 14:13:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Sports
Is there a # I call? Is it a Rock Concert? Or do I just hang out around abortion clinics. I'm interested in buying a PS3 and think that the price of sould should cover that as well as some accessories.
2007-01-17 14:13:17 · 18 answers · asked by toburn41 2 in Religion & Spirituality
HELP!!!!!!!
which are perpendicular lines?
y= -2
y= -1/2x-4
y-4=2(x+3)
y= -2x
2007-01-17 14:13:16 · 4 answers · asked by Nate K 2 in Mathematics
these telemarketers call my house asking me about it but my house is already paid off..
2007-01-17 14:13:13 · 11 answers · asked by Ketra 4 in Other - Home & Garden
2007-01-17 14:13:09 · 15 answers · asked by ggirl 1 in Mathematics
2007-01-17 14:13:04 · 8 answers · asked by Cruz 1 in Internet
Could you include its history too. A brief one will do.
2007-01-17 14:13:00 · 3 answers · asked by Jamie 1 in Other - Asia Pacific
like give details, because a friend of mine might get contacts and she has no info bout them. so if you wear contacts, give some info please?
2007-01-17 14:12:56 · 10 answers · asked by sayy whattt 3 in Other - Beauty & Style
I heard he was a nice guy.
2007-01-17 14:12:52 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Many of us born to the rich of richest, many to the poor of the poorest.... and this holds true in social, racial status etc., which serves the basis for fighting amongst us? Why God is so biased amongst creatures???
2007-01-17 14:12:45 · 10 answers · asked by Dr.Waugh 1 in Anthropology
I've been going out for this guy for what, 4 or 5 months now?? Well somewhere along the way I just stopped liking him. Maybe it's because he never holds my hand or talks to me or hangs out with me or tell me anything sweet or nice like a boyfriend should do. He can't even go on a date with me because his mom doesn't allow him to date yet. I don't know what to do. I mean we talk sometimes and its cool and all, but its nothing special. We talk to each other like we talk to our friends, and that's when I realized that friends is really basically all we are ... except we just say that were "going out" although we never do anything different from being friends. So, the thing is, I really just WANT us to be friends, JUST friends. Truthfully, I don't really think HE is really ready to be in a relationship. So what do I do? Everyone tells me he's crazy about me, but I just don't like him like that anymore. How do I let him know I just want to be friends without hurting him?? HELP!
2007-01-17 14:12:38 · 6 answers · asked by kat 1 in Singles & Dating
what are some sweet things to say? he's in iraq and i want to write a really good one to cheer him up and make him smile.
2007-01-17 14:12:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce
2007-01-17 14:12:34 · 5 answers · asked by medic 4 in Words & Wordplay
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