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It depicted his choice to leave his wife, wealth etc. Actor was Indian/asian.
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Prince Siddharta Gautama was born some 2,500 years ago as a prince in what is now called Lumbini in Nepal. At his birth, many special signs appeared. His father asked a sage living in his kingdom for advice on his son. The sage predicted that Gautama would become either a great King or a great spiritual teacher.
The King wanted his son to be his successor and tried to keep his son far away from all matters of life that could incline him to a spiritual life. Gautama usually spent his life in his father's palace, surrounded by all possible luxuries of the time. He proved to be a special child, being quite intelligent as well as an excellent sportsman. He married to a beautiful woman he loved, and they had a son.
When he was 29 years old, he discovered there was much suffering in the world around him. Traditionally it is explained that he suddenly recognised the problems of sickness, old age and death when visiting the city. Being shocked by the suffering of all living beings, he decided to search for way to end it. He left his wife and child, the palace and even his royal clothes, and started out on a spiritual quest.
Gautama studied under various teachers and followed their practices until he mastered them all. His first teacher was Alara Kalama who taught a form of meditation leading to an exalted form of absorption called "state of no-thingness", a state without moral or cognitive dimension. Gautama saw this was not going to solve suffering, and continued his search.
The next teacher was Udraka Ramaputra who taught him meditative absorption leading to âthe state of neither perception nor non-perceptionâ. Again, Gautama realised this was not the state he was looking for. (Both Alara and Udraka are by some scholars considered Jain followers.)
Next, he tried extreme ascetic practices at Uruvilva, with five other ascetics who turned into his followers. In the end, Gautama nearly died of starvation.
After about six years of searching, he realised that just wearing down his body did not generate new insights, but rather leads to weakness and self-destruction. When he decided to give up extreme asceticism, his students left him.
He then sat down in a place now called Bodhgaya (North India) under a Bodhi-tree and decided not to get up anymore until he discovered the truth. Just a short time later, he became a fully enlightened Buddha. This means that he actualised all positive potentials of a sentient being and rid himself of all negative qualities. With this, he realised the true nature of existence and suffering (emptiness), and how suffering can be ended.
Seven weeks after enlightenment, the Buddha gave his first discourse in Sarnath, near Varanasi . Here he taught the 4 Noble Truths. The Buddha continued to teach during his life, until passing away at the age of 81.
The Buddha once summarised his entire teachings in one sentence:
"I teach about suffering and the way to end it".
Prince Siddharta Gautama was born some 2,500 years ago as a prince in what is now called Lumbini in Nepal. At his birth, many special signs appeared. His father asked a sage living in his kingdom for advice on his son. The sage predicted that Gautama would become either a great King or a great spiritual teacher.
The King wanted his son to be his successor and tried to keep his son far away from all matters of life that could incline him to a spiritual life. Gautama usually spent his life in his father's palace, surrounded by all possible luxuries of the time. He proved to be a special child, being quite intelligent as well as an excellent sportsman. He married to a beautiful woman he loved, and they had a son.
When he was 29 years old, he discovered there was much suffering in the world around him. Traditionally it is explained that he suddenly recognised the problems of sickness, old age and death when visiting the city. Being shocked by the suffering of all living beings, he decided to search for way to end it. He left his wife and child, the palace and even his royal clothes, and started out on a spiritual quest.
Gautama studied under various teachers and followed their practices until he mastered them all. His first teacher was Alara Kalama who taught a form of meditation leading to an exalted form of absorption called "state of no-thingness", a state without moral or cognitive dimension. Gautama saw this was not going to solve suffering, and continued his search.
The next teacher was Udraka Ramaputra who taught him meditative absorption leading to âthe state of neither perception nor non-perceptionâ. Again, Gautama realised this was not the state he was looking for. (Both Alara and Udraka are by some scholars considered Jain followers.)
Next, he tried extreme ascetic practices at Uruvilva, with five other ascetics who turned into his followers. In the end, Gautama nearly died of starvation.
After about six years of searching, he realised that just wearing down his body did not generate new insights, but rather leads to weakness and self-destruction. When he decided to give up extreme asceticism, his students left him.
He then sat down in a place now called Bodhgaya (North India) under a Bodhi-tree and decided not to get up anymore until he discovered the truth. Just a short time later, he became a fully enlightened Buddha. This means that he actualised all positive potentials of a sentient being and rid himself of all negative qualities. With this, he realised the true nature of existence and suffering (emptiness), and how suffering can be ended.
Seven weeks after enlightenment, the Buddha gave his first discourse in Sarnath, near Varanasi . Here he taught the 4 Noble Truths. The Buddha continued to teach during his life, until passing away at the age of 81.
The Buddha once summarised his entire teachings in one sentence:
"I teach about suffering and the way to end it".
Who should I vote for - please see details?
Q. OK. So can you help me make up my mind? I've been watching the debates, watching experts comment on them and trying to make up my mind. I'm not good with politics, but I'll tell you what is important to me at this time. And we all know that this time is like no other.
1. Unemployment - I need a job where I could earn enough to survive
2. Housing market - I have a house I'd like to sell at a FAIR price
3. Health care - even for poor folks, like me
4. Education - I need to be able to get a loan to do a MA, and pay my BA loan (at 6% interest!!!)
5. I do care about the elderly as well - so social security, 401 K etc. is important too
6. Women's rights are important as well, in that I don't want someone to do away with a woman's right to have an abortion as I can't help take care of all those poor orphan children when I can barely take care of myself.
As a side note. I can't say I care about small businesses since I worked for many of them and the owners of such businesses waste money like it's not theirs.
I mean, the last guy was a pot head golfer, and, for instance, we could no longer buy material on the company Amex because he ran it to the limit all on personal stuff. The guys before that paid themselves $3000 and $2000 per week respectively, and as a result the business went to hell. They also seem to hire people who just say what they want to hear, as opposed to be honest about the situation and help the company grow. This is the granite business, by the way, and I realize not ALL are the same, but 99% of them are.
I was talking to K-man the other day, and he said that small businesses create jobs. Sure, I can see that. While he and I talk on the phone often and sometimes respectfully disagree, I don't know what to think about this. Yes, I want small business to create jobs, but if they don't offer health care because they would rather spend their money on weed, golf stuff, trips, cruises, and Hawaiian shirts (I'm not kidding), I don't think they deserve to be helped. It's the same as AIG, the govt helps them, and they go on a luxury retreat. I mean, couldn't they go to an Ashram in India instead to learn how to relax from the inside out? It would have been much cheaper.
So, help me out, please, and give me some good reasons on why I should vote one way or the other.
Do me a favor and leave negative stuff out. I mean, politely disagree all you want, but show me some sound reasons for your side.
Thanks ;-)
1. Unemployment - I need a job where I could earn enough to survive
2. Housing market - I have a house I'd like to sell at a FAIR price
3. Health care - even for poor folks, like me
4. Education - I need to be able to get a loan to do a MA, and pay my BA loan (at 6% interest!!!)
5. I do care about the elderly as well - so social security, 401 K etc. is important too
6. Women's rights are important as well, in that I don't want someone to do away with a woman's right to have an abortion as I can't help take care of all those poor orphan children when I can barely take care of myself.
As a side note. I can't say I care about small businesses since I worked for many of them and the owners of such businesses waste money like it's not theirs.
I mean, the last guy was a pot head golfer, and, for instance, we could no longer buy material on the company Amex because he ran it to the limit all on personal stuff. The guys before that paid themselves $3000 and $2000 per week respectively, and as a result the business went to hell. They also seem to hire people who just say what they want to hear, as opposed to be honest about the situation and help the company grow. This is the granite business, by the way, and I realize not ALL are the same, but 99% of them are.
I was talking to K-man the other day, and he said that small businesses create jobs. Sure, I can see that. While he and I talk on the phone often and sometimes respectfully disagree, I don't know what to think about this. Yes, I want small business to create jobs, but if they don't offer health care because they would rather spend their money on weed, golf stuff, trips, cruises, and Hawaiian shirts (I'm not kidding), I don't think they deserve to be helped. It's the same as AIG, the govt helps them, and they go on a luxury retreat. I mean, couldn't they go to an Ashram in India instead to learn how to relax from the inside out? It would have been much cheaper.
So, help me out, please, and give me some good reasons on why I should vote one way or the other.
Do me a favor and leave negative stuff out. I mean, politely disagree all you want, but show me some sound reasons for your side.
Thanks ;-)
Answer
I'm voting for Obama based mostly on one issue - abortion. The next president will get to nominate 1, 2, or even 3 new Judges for the Supreme Court. Bush did his best to pack it with conservative justices during his term, so it already leans to the right. If McCain is president he has said he will choose far-right justices who will overturn Roe V Wade the next time it gets challenged at the national level. Although I'm a strong believer in state's rights, I firmly disagree that abortion should be a state decision. Women need abortions in all 50 states, not just the blue ones.
McCain has a terrible record on abortion - he's voted on every possible occasion to make it more difficult and expensive to obtain. Obama has the opposite record - he's voted repeatedly to keep abortion legal, safe, and affordable. He'll choose moderate/liberal judges who will restore the natural balance of the Supreme Court and uphold Roe V Wade.
Stuff I also agree with Obama on: the need for immediate alternative energy infrastructure, that the war in Iraq needs to end very soon, that Afghanistan is where the real problem is, that deregulation caused over-speculation and the bottom dropping out of the market, that we need to be able to meet with world leaders without preconditions, and that everyone in America has a right to affordable healthcare.
McCain is a good man who served his country well decades ago, but he's past his prime, and frankly, the way he's been acting at the debates really puts me off him. He's condescending and quick to anger, whereas even in a very heated situation Obama never gets angry. That's a quality I'd like my president to have - a very slow temper, a patience. Old white Republicans got our country into this bad situation in the first place, what makes anyone think they can get us out?
Edit: I'd say Obama's record of teaching Constitutional Law for 12 years the University of Chicago ought to be pretty good preparation for a job protecting and defending the Constitution, don't you think?
And he's not an unknown, he's been under intense media scrutiny for more than 2 years now.
I'm voting for Obama based mostly on one issue - abortion. The next president will get to nominate 1, 2, or even 3 new Judges for the Supreme Court. Bush did his best to pack it with conservative justices during his term, so it already leans to the right. If McCain is president he has said he will choose far-right justices who will overturn Roe V Wade the next time it gets challenged at the national level. Although I'm a strong believer in state's rights, I firmly disagree that abortion should be a state decision. Women need abortions in all 50 states, not just the blue ones.
McCain has a terrible record on abortion - he's voted on every possible occasion to make it more difficult and expensive to obtain. Obama has the opposite record - he's voted repeatedly to keep abortion legal, safe, and affordable. He'll choose moderate/liberal judges who will restore the natural balance of the Supreme Court and uphold Roe V Wade.
Stuff I also agree with Obama on: the need for immediate alternative energy infrastructure, that the war in Iraq needs to end very soon, that Afghanistan is where the real problem is, that deregulation caused over-speculation and the bottom dropping out of the market, that we need to be able to meet with world leaders without preconditions, and that everyone in America has a right to affordable healthcare.
McCain is a good man who served his country well decades ago, but he's past his prime, and frankly, the way he's been acting at the debates really puts me off him. He's condescending and quick to anger, whereas even in a very heated situation Obama never gets angry. That's a quality I'd like my president to have - a very slow temper, a patience. Old white Republicans got our country into this bad situation in the first place, what makes anyone think they can get us out?
Edit: I'd say Obama's record of teaching Constitutional Law for 12 years the University of Chicago ought to be pretty good preparation for a job protecting and defending the Constitution, don't you think?
And he's not an unknown, he's been under intense media scrutiny for more than 2 years now.
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