@XTimes. But did Death solve the donkey’s problem? Who is going to feed the donkey? Who is going to water him? Who is going to house him? Who is going to clip his nails? Who is going to protect him from the wolves? Who is going to shod his feet? Who is going to take the donkey to the veteranarian when he gets sick?

@XTimes Ultimately evil derives from “good intentions”. Good and evil are NOT opposites just as war and peace are NOT opposites. These are common misperceptions and falacies that are “accepted” in society. People generally tend to think in terms of opposites but do not necesarily think in terms of consequences for any action or decision that they make. Often times people make decisions especially hastily made decisions without regard of what may happen. The meaning is in the question.

I agree that good and evil don’t have to be the infinite ends of a line, but to deny correlation may also lead to fallible thoughts. Regardless, that still did not answer the question, what is the most profitable use of our time on earth? Perhaps is there a generalized statement they could equal in magnitude the general of humanity? In other words, something like “Studying Philosophy” as an answer applies to few, and is too specific of an answer, so let’s be vague.

I still think the I-Ching birthed them all.

The mental attitude of equanimity and dispassionate outlook in front of events was also characteristic of the Cynics and Stoics, who called it “Apatheia”Nagarjuna’s dialectic developed in the Madhyamaka can be paralleled to the Greek dialectical tradition.

In the Prajnaparamita, the rejection of the reality of passing phenomena as “empty, false and fleeting” can also be found in Greek Pyrrhonism.The perception of ultimate reality was, for the Cynics as well as for the Madhyamakas and Zen teachers after them, only accessible through a non-conceptual and non-verbal approach (Greek Phronesis), which alone allowed to get rid of ordinary conceptions

Many of the early Mahayana theories of reality and knowledge can be related to Greek philosophical schools of thought. Mahayana Buddhism has been described as the “form of Buddhism which (regardless of how Hinduized its later forms became) seems to have originated in the Greco-Buddhist communities of India, through a conflation of the Greek Democritean-Sophistic-Skeptical tradition with the rudimentary and unformalized empirical and skeptical elements already present in early Buddhism

Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE

I hate the way they keep mentioning “ugly”

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