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Originally Posted by Despanan
Okay...let me see if I can put this in terms you can understand.
Imagine you and a bunch of people are chained to a wheel and pushing it Conan Style. Your eyes are sewn shut and you can't see the room around you.
You can be nice to the other people pushing the wheel, and maybe you can be the best damn wheel-pusher around, and so you get promoted/stronger and pushing the wheel gets a little easier but you're still chained to a misery wheel. A buddha is someone who figured out how to slip out of the chains, remove the stitches from his eyes, and turn on the light.
As you can see, being super-nice to someone else on the wheel is less important than figuring out how best to push it. But, arguably, you can figure out how to slip out of the chains at any time.
Buddhists are people who have found what they think is generally the best way to go about slipping out of the chains, based upon the teachings of that dude who did it the first time.
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