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Have you ever explored Buddhism?
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RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism?
(July 29, 2014 at 10:13 pm)psychoslice Wrote:
(July 29, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You kind of lost me after saying that there's more to life than what our senses reveal. While I agree with that, I can't say questioning things keeps us from living. I would expect the exact opposite. How do you keep from becoming stagnant if you don't question everything?

Being stagnate can be questioning everything, you can stay in that mind frame and never truly experience life, as I said we are all one, we are life itself. We can never truly know all the answers, we can only know what our senses can reveal.

I don't believe in a Christian god, but I do feel that what we all are connected to, is something life a higher consciousness, or source, or god if you want to use that word.

Its like love, we can understand how the body reacts in the experience we call love, but no matter how much we understand this, that understanding is never love, and this goes with everything else.

Are you channeling Confucius? Seriously, I've been going through something lately, and what you post here has been so timely for me.
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Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - July 27, 2014 at 7:41 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Amalynne0 - July 27, 2014 at 7:58 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - July 27, 2014 at 8:06 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by vorlon13 - July 27, 2014 at 8:01 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Minimalist - July 27, 2014 at 8:05 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Chad32 - July 27, 2014 at 8:13 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Natachan - July 27, 2014 at 8:40 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Dystopia - July 28, 2014 at 3:23 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by jesus_wept - July 28, 2014 at 3:47 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Mudhammam - July 28, 2014 at 3:51 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - August 29, 2014 at 2:57 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Polaris - July 28, 2014 at 7:44 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by ShaMan - July 28, 2014 at 7:50 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by ReGen - July 29, 2014 at 8:03 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by vorlon13 - July 29, 2014 at 8:39 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Cato - July 29, 2014 at 11:03 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by LivingNumbers - July 29, 2014 at 11:13 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by RobbyPants - July 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Welsh cake - July 29, 2014 at 3:28 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by JesusHChrist - July 29, 2014 at 3:38 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Angrboda - July 29, 2014 at 5:27 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by psychoslice - July 29, 2014 at 5:51 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Angrboda - July 29, 2014 at 6:17 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Chad32 - July 29, 2014 at 6:36 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by psychoslice - July 29, 2014 at 10:13 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - July 29, 2014 at 10:16 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by psychoslice - July 29, 2014 at 10:54 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by tjakey - September 1, 2014 at 11:01 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by psychoslice - September 5, 2014 at 10:14 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by The Valkyrie - July 29, 2014 at 6:09 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - July 29, 2014 at 10:09 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Rev. Rye - August 29, 2014 at 10:11 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Mr Greene - August 31, 2014 at 4:52 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - August 31, 2014 at 1:54 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by ShaMan - August 31, 2014 at 2:51 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Angrboda - August 31, 2014 at 3:48 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Dawsonite - August 31, 2014 at 4:01 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by ComradeMeow - September 1, 2014 at 5:10 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by The Valkyrie - September 1, 2014 at 11:08 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Zack - September 2, 2014 at 12:28 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by MJ the Skeptical - September 2, 2014 at 1:32 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by vorlon13 - September 2, 2014 at 11:42 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - September 2, 2014 at 10:30 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Jaysyn - September 2, 2014 at 1:13 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by Polaris - September 2, 2014 at 10:44 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - September 5, 2014 at 9:57 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by MJ the Skeptical - September 3, 2014 at 1:29 am
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by *Deidre* - September 5, 2014 at 10:28 pm
RE: Have you ever explored Buddhism? - by MJ the Skeptical - September 7, 2014 at 4:14 am

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