Historicity of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

Cypress said:
It's a good basic starting point to get a discussion going, and everything I sourced from wiki is widely known and corroborated. It comports with everything I have read about Siddhartha.

It also confirms a basic fact I've observed in everyday experience: the American Hollywood stars and urban hipsters have tried to strip away the mystical and religious aspects of Buddhism, and they've tried to turn the Buddha into some kind of secular teacher of wisdom and tranquility
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I know people who are Buddhists without the ideology.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
A lot of Zen is just being "present". Living in the now. Nike adopted a very Zen-like slogan with "just do it".

It's not about being impulsive, but acting with confidence and preciseness.
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Nice.
I remember our former governor Moonbeam Brown spent time in Japan studying Zen Buddhism. I kind of respected that about him; even though he was a practicing Catholic, his life was wide open to continuing his spiritual journey.
 
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