--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii...@...> wrote: > > I know what your going to say...Buddha... > But what did Buddha do, besides sitting around, detatching from the > World? > What did any of the Enlightened Ones do, to save us from ourselves? > R.G.>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii...@...> wrote: > > I know what your going to say...Buddha... > But what did Buddha do, besides sitting around, detatching from the > World? > What did any of the Enlightened Ones do, to save us from ourselves? > R.G.> You must first precisely state your definition of `enlightenment' in one or two sentences to ask this question. Can you describe what you mean by the word? Can you describe your understanding of the usefulness (or not) of such a state (in your definition of the word `enlightenment) to the individual or the world? Seriously, I would like to hear each person's definition in one or two sentences please. (we already know Vaj is going to inscrutably say " " And Sal is going to say "A good BLT sandwich" ...but what is the definition from the rest of you? OffWorld