Some boring Buddhist stuff

[makingthematrix]

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[khrysha]

The Buddha said, you should use only what you need to become enlightened, the rest is irrelevant.

:)

[makingthematrix]

I like these philosophical discussions :) At least, when someone asks me what this whole Buddhism is about, I'm ready to talk for hours :)

[khrysha]

That's good. :)

[anonymous]

In "Buddhism for Beginners" Thubthen Chodron says that one can speak about 'individual karma' as well as of 'group karma' - karma of a social group or residents of some specific place for instance. That makes me think of Bhutan, where every child is born already with a debt that he/she will never be able to pay off during his/her life. Sad but true.
And of course, one shoud do skillful deeds in order to help others to achieve the enlightenment and relieve - that can be understood as helping other 'individuals' as well as building good karma for 'everything that is connected' :-)
Cheers,
Aleksander