Hi ,
All religions are NOT the same. Pls do not place the rest of the world's religions with yours. I am a buddhist and I have never ever seen or heard about Buddha ordering people to do this or that. I have posted my thoughts on Buddhism on my blog http://linuxasia.org/?p=18. In case it gets slashdotted , here is the whole thing.
"The real buddhism. What is the real buddhism ? Is it all about a starving guy on top of a mountain chanting mantras till he die ? Or is it something much more than that ? Here , I shall show you what is the real buddhism as Buddha himself would like to be seen as. So lets begin.
Lets begin with the Buddha himself. Was he real ? Did he truely reach enlightenment ? Or was he nothing but a popular hero that was potrayed god after he died ? The last question isn't silly , people still believe elvis is alive and well.
Before we answer these questions , lets think about them. If he were nothing but a tall tale or a hero of his time , we don't have to believe in him. So further discussion about Buddha , the enlightened one , or Buddhism is moot. If you believe it to be so , you may stop here. There is no harm , you will not be going to hell or being punished in anyway as many Buddhists believe since Buddha is false.
However , if you believe Buddha truely was someone who , after going much difficult trial and error , gained enlightenment. Here Buddhism is different from other religions. It has everything to do with the believe , around that time , that the universe is in cyclic motion. They believe that the universe has been restarted many many times before this universe comes into being and will go through the cycle many times after. So do human beings. We also have past lives and future lives. In fact depending on your behaviour , you might go to hell or become an animal or go to heaven.
Before you think this believe is too advanced for a civilisation that existed 2500 years ago , pls remember Indian civilisation invented the concept of zero , along with many other scientific and mathematical discoveries. See here for full details. So to them the highest order of truth is not going to heaven but the mean to stop this endless cycle. You see going to heaven means you still have not escaped from this cycle. You still are part of it.
So around 2500 years ago , a prince was born who , at birth , showed some remarkable abilities. He was able to be able to speak and walk immediately after being borned and that when consulted , the court's astrologers told the king that the boy will either become the king of the world or become Buddha or enlightened one. I will leave the discussions about these to others. Lets move on with Buddha the man. He was treasured by his father , clearly since he would be the one taking over his kingdom , and was kept in a palace where everything is young , beautiful and sexy. Karma Sutra anyone ??
Anyway , that was how he grew up and married. Yes , Buddha was married and had a child. He faced 4 signs death , sickness , old age and one more I don't remember. So he learnt that life is not a bed of rose has he had thought and ran away from the palace to find the path in order to escape from these sufferings. So he tried many things and suffered. In once instance , he starved himself and nearly died. That would be the picture you would see in most buddhist temples , Buddha in nothing but bones. In reality , Buddha died of old age , not of extreme diet.
So after many trials and errors , he realised the truth and become Buddha , the enlightened one or awakened one. That means , pls pay attention here , he no longer exists after he died. He has escaped of the cycle of life and death. That means , he will not be saving you or punishing you. He didn't become Buddha so that he could save others. That was never his intention. He did saved many people while he was alive and many of them attained the enlightenment as he did. But let me repeat , he didn't become Bu
As others have pointed out above , you just have to update your yum repo... back up first though... and save your settings.. expecially X server settings.
I been using ubuntu since warty and I have nothing but praise for it. Here are a few things that I like about it.
1) Clean and lean , just one disk , burn and install.
2) Synaptic , excellent excellent program.
3) Very useful guides and great channel #ubuntu on freenode.
4) Bleeding edge yet stable.
5) Fast bootup time
Overall , I rate it as 9/10. I would prefer it to have a dvd version thats why I am not giving 10/10.:P
yup... more the better... but different philosophies pls... if all want to be new redhat then we are going to be doomed... luckily ubuntu is very very clean so i am expecting kubuntu to be very clean as well:P more power to the astronaut!!!
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Hi , All religions are NOT the same. Pls do not place the rest of the world's religions with yours. I am a buddhist and I have never ever seen or heard about Buddha ordering people to do this or that. I have posted my thoughts on Buddhism on my blog http://linuxasia.org/?p=18. In case it gets slashdotted , here is the whole thing.
"The real buddhism. What is the real buddhism ? Is it all about a starving guy on top of a mountain chanting mantras till he die ? Or is it something much more than that ? Here , I shall show you what is the real buddhism as Buddha himself would like to be seen as. So lets begin.
Lets begin with the Buddha himself. Was he real ? Did he truely reach enlightenment ? Or was he nothing but a popular hero that was potrayed god after he died ? The last question isn't silly , people still believe elvis is alive and well.
Before we answer these questions , lets think about them. If he were nothing but a tall tale or a hero of his time , we don't have to believe in him. So further discussion about Buddha , the enlightened one , or Buddhism is moot. If you believe it to be so , you may stop here. There is no harm , you will not be going to hell or being punished in anyway as many Buddhists believe since Buddha is false.
However , if you believe Buddha truely was someone who , after going much difficult trial and error , gained enlightenment. Here Buddhism is different from other religions. It has everything to do with the believe , around that time , that the universe is in cyclic motion. They believe that the universe has been restarted many many times before this universe comes into being and will go through the cycle many times after. So do human beings. We also have past lives and future lives. In fact depending on your behaviour , you might go to hell or become an animal or go to heaven.
Before you think this believe is too advanced for a civilisation that existed 2500 years ago , pls remember Indian civilisation invented the concept of zero , along with many other scientific and mathematical discoveries. See here for full details. So to them the highest order of truth is not going to heaven but the mean to stop this endless cycle. You see going to heaven means you still have not escaped from this cycle. You still are part of it.
So around 2500 years ago , a prince was born who , at birth , showed some remarkable abilities. He was able to be able to speak and walk immediately after being borned and that when consulted , the court's astrologers told the king that the boy will either become the king of the world or become Buddha or enlightened one. I will leave the discussions about these to others. Lets move on with Buddha the man. He was treasured by his father , clearly since he would be the one taking over his kingdom , and was kept in a palace where everything is young , beautiful and sexy. Karma Sutra anyone ??
Anyway , that was how he grew up and married. Yes , Buddha was married and had a child. He faced 4 signs death , sickness , old age and one more I don't remember. So he learnt that life is not a bed of rose has he had thought and ran away from the palace to find the path in order to escape from these sufferings. So he tried many things and suffered. In once instance , he starved himself and nearly died. That would be the picture you would see in most buddhist temples , Buddha in nothing but bones. In reality , Buddha died of old age , not of extreme diet.
So after many trials and errors , he realised the truth and become Buddha , the enlightened one or awakened one. That means , pls pay attention here , he no longer exists after he died. He has escaped of the cycle of life and death. That means , he will not be saving you or punishing you. He didn't become Buddha so that he could save others. That was never his intention. He did saved many people while he was alive and many of them attained the enlightenment as he did. But let me repeat , he didn't become Bu
Do you mean to say the CDs has no gcc ???
okie ... bye!!!
cure for cancer ???
Europe has 450 billion people ... WTF ???
As others have pointed out above , you just have to update your yum repo ... back up first though... and save your settings .. expecially X server settings.
If you were ever to be asked why it is called theory and not law , pls tell them relativity is also a theory of relativity and not law of relativity.
Who was the first then ??
I been using ubuntu since warty and I have nothing but praise for it. Here are a few things that I like about it. 1) Clean and lean , just one disk , burn and install. 2) Synaptic , excellent excellent program. 3) Very useful guides and great channel #ubuntu on freenode. 4) Bleeding edge yet stable. 5) Fast bootup time Overall , I rate it as 9/10. I would prefer it to have a dvd version thats why I am not giving 10/10. :P
Never mess with Open Source!!!!!
my first post!!!! yah!!!! :P
I suggest you read "Sophie's World" instead ... its much much more enriching than da vinci :P
I , for one , welcome our new smart building overlords!!!! ... ok its lame but i got nothing much in my mind .. blah
when is it coming out ? to the mass market i mean ..
why not ? In fact , I like your phrase "Peace , Love and , and Linux" .. lol :P good job dude!
yup ... more the better... but different philosophies pls ... if all want to be new redhat then we are going to be doomed... luckily ubuntu is very very clean so i am expecting kubuntu to be very clean as well :P more power to the astronaut!!!
can't we just read their thoughts ??? :P
If thoughts can be decoded and translated into binary and transmitted across the net , can we have the real cybersex ????? :P
Honestly , i am not a fan of games2movie type of movies ... i prefer games to remain games ... i won't be watching this ... anyone else feel this way ?
I ,for one , welcome our new Pornographics Institute Overlords!!!! :P