CHOOSE the path to Enlightenment now! Because: life's a bitch and then you are...reborn. What the Buddha taught was that Awakening is the ONLY true "happiness", all others (goals) are like chasing the winds of illusion [Maya]. Enlightenment is the escape from the otherwise endless cycle of death and rebirth. Freedom from the clutches of the wheel of rebirth, of samsara! This is Nivana/Moksha, the highest goal of all the great traditions. The last words the Buddha spoke were: "Seek you Liberation with diligence!" As if the world were lit aflame, because it is. Spiritual Dharma (of many traditions, i.e. Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, Sufism, etc, etc) are the key to putting out this fire. Seek them with the urgency you would seek water in the case of your own body were ablaze. No time to wait or it is too late. "Fight fire with...water(dharma)!
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Wanted: People with interest in the metaphysical. "Metaphysical" used in this context as the recognition of, and continued effort to access, reality beyond (meta) the purely material one that is perceived as such only because of our limited sense apparatus.
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." -Teilhard de Chardin
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May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May all beings never be separated from the happiness that is without suffering.
May all beings abide in equanimity, free from both attachment and hatred, holding some close and others distant.
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