Posted on 11/20/2015 8:30:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
1. Nothing. He took a vow of silence and he WAS silent for years. Of course, no one really knows since the Indians deliberately refrained from developing an alphabet for a couple of millenia and only did so around the birth of Christ from the PRESSURE of surrounding countries. They felt it would be a desecration of their VEDDA, their holy book, to have it written down.
So, since all those great gurus and holy men had no scribes to put down their words of wisdom, it's only an ORAL tradition, NOTORIOUSLY inaccurate and unreliable for history.
2. IF he were going to say anything, it would PROBABLY be along the lines of: "It doesn't matter. We are all nothing."
Sidhartha Gautama [the Buddha] believed in the Great Void, the Great Nothingness. He might have irritated the holy pie outta you.
One male buttock?
I thought the objective is to attain Nirvana. What is it? NOTHING?
Yes, or more accurately, NOTHINGNESS.
In more practical terms it is the, “Embrace of Uncertainty”.
RE: The Indians deliberately refrained from developing an alphabet for a couple of millenia and only did so around the birth of Christ from the PRESSURE of surrounding countries.
I thought they had Sanskrit? At least that’s how I know the Buddhist texts were transmitted to China.
Yep, that about sums it up.
Also, there are no women in Hindu heaven. Only men get to go there, so women PRAY to come back as men.
Budda says, “ISIS is like a grasshopper that has multilped too many times.”
They did have it; still do but it's not much older a writing system than the birth of Christ.
This is the kicker: BOTH the Chinese and Indians REALLY believe that THEIR culture is older, better and far superior than the other.
They've been picking at each other since there have been an India and China.
To me "older" doesn't mean better, by any means. In fact, if you really want to see poverty you go to India; if you really want to see filth you go to China. We've been to both and that about sums them up.
Caveat: At least both countries can and do produce beautiful things: cloth, art, statues, etc. The Saudis produce NOTHING beautiful. Other Arab countries produce beautiful things, but not them.
And, ONE of these days China HAS to come up with an alphabet. They have only pictographs. The pictograph for GOOD is a drawing of a woman with a small boy, that is, SONS are good. Good is pronounced HOE, and very good is GEI HOE...woman with small boy is good.
At least the Hindus don't usually abort their baby girl fetuses. They love all their children and don't dump/kill the females like the Chinese used to do. Amniocenteses really did a number on girls in China.
Female fetus abortion was so bad in China that one entire generation of men in China had no women to marry. Of course, the wealthier men always found a wife. Not so with the poor men. Those men were called "bare branches."
There is no abortion in Saudi Arabia. Even the most deformed baby is loved and not "done away with."
Boy am I blessed to have been born here in the U.S.A. I THANK our good Lord every day for that.
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