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How do animals achieve enlightenment?

Postby Goanna = Element » Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:41 am

How do animals achieve enlightenment, or at least achieve rebirth as a human, since they cannot meditate or understand Buddhism? Is there something we can do to help our pets have a better rebirth?
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Re: How do animals achieve enlightenment?

Postby Ben » Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:59 am

Element has returned to troll again.
...he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion.

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Re: How do animals achieve enlightenment?

Postby retrofuturist » Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:44 am

Luckily no one wasted any time responding to his disingenuous questions on this occasion....

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