i like it when people sincerely consider jesus or the buddha as spiritual colleagues rather than as superiors
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This would be a good DALL-E prompt
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An aboriginal man in australia said “some of us became christians but to us jesus is not the boss of us, he’s one of us”
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this is the vibe
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aim: to absolve everybody's sin, but actually explain to people exactly how I'm doing it so they can check my work
it's insufficient to just insist that people trust me when I declare the previous moral regime has expired
(even though Jesus was entirely correct on that point!)
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Reading this gave me a sense of collegiality with the buddha
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Also this excerpt has cracked me up so hard 
Gave me a sense of perspective & appreciation of something like "the pragmatic memetic challenges that don't go away just from being a Buddha". Even before the internet, it was really hard to control how your message spread!
Gave me a sense of perspective & appreciation of something like "the pragmatic memetic challenges that don't go away just from being a Buddha". Even before the internet, it was really hard to control how your message spread!
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Interesting, as I've been looking more at why I don't ever make any progress working with specifically buddhist stuff- it's all "no, you are doing it wrong" which is just silly.
I've been looking more at Soka Gakkai lately, but even there it's just...it's like the ....
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it's like the idea of everyone BEING Buddha is more a textual prop with Nichiren than a reality or actual progress/goal
too much text, not enough magic.
also, a tangent