Chris Carey:  

this river"? The teacher ponders for a moment looks up and down the river and yells back "My son, you are on the other side" . There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn't matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong. Hindu teaching "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." —Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1861 Buddhism doesn’t have a creator God, like we find in the book of Genesis, nor does Buddhism have the Fundamentalist problem of a literal interpretation of scripture. As a result, it’s never had a war with science, unlike the science-religion skirmishes that plague Christianity and Islam. Stephen Asthma Chris, faith is all some people have. Don't be mean, be nice........ Thanks Kari :) "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, in a final sense, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." Dwight D. Eisenhower “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow One day the Buddha held up a flower in front of an audience of 1,250 monks and nuns. he did not say anything for quite a long time. The audience was perfectly silent. Everyone seemed to be thinking hard, trying to see the meaning behind the Buddha's gesture. Then, suddenly, the Buddha smiled. He smiled because someone in the audience smiled at him and at the flower.... To me the meaning is quite simple. When someone holds up a flower and shows it to you, he wants you to see it. If you keep thinking, you miss the flower. The person who was not thinking, who was just himself, was able to encounter the flower in depth, and he smiled. That is the problem of life. If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. Peace Is Every Step Thich Nhat Hanh Buddhism won't give you the answer. Buddhism might help you find your own question, but you gotta supply your own answers. Sorry. No one else's answer will ever satisfy you- nor should it. Brad Warner. PERFECT !!! What we need today is an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without: a secular ethics. Dalai Lama (High Five to the Dalai Lama !!)".