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   From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   David Dalton  wrote in   
   news:0001HW.2BFED65700A3E37B70000AD0E38F@news.eternal-september.org:   
      
   > Happy Vesak to any Buddhist readers!   
   >   
      
   Happy Wesak Day, David!   
      
   The most important Buddhist festival which commemorates the birth,   
   enlightenment and passing of Shakya the Muni, Gautama the Buddha, in   
   Buddhism.   
      
   As G. I. Gurdjief said "The world is a school..." and if human life can be   
   said to have an overarching purpose at all, it is to graduate through to   
   the Awakening of Wisdom or Knowledge. The main error is Ignorance, which   
   keeps the karmic nexus going. The Muni termed it the Twelvefold Chain of   
   Causation, that is, everything proceeds from causes - one thing leads to   
   another.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)