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Old 01-19-2006, 07:19 AM
MidGe MidGe is offline
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Default Re: family issue, and personal philosophy

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The final goal of all Buddhists, though, is to get to a constant state of Nirvana, which is basically losing your individuality, letting your mind wander without caring if you're still breathing or not. Needless to say, this theoretical state will lead to death very quickly. Most people who are into this usually reach Nirvana from time to time, but their basic instincts sooner or later kick in.

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FYI, the canonical final goal of Buddhism is the eradication ("pulling out by the root", and therefore no possibility of growth back) of greed, hate and ignorance within one's psychology. BTW, those three terms have very specific and larger meaning than attributed in the common english use of language.
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