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Seems Paul "rediscovered" what Buddhism teaches us: You need to loose your ego to achieve Nirvana. With the difference that the Buddhists also tell you a method for going about this... :)

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Heh, don't you see? By identifying as a Buddhist and classifying a particular bit of wisdom as "belonging" to that religion you are falling into exactly the trap that he described. I grew up in the Buddhist community and ironically the greatest trap that Buddhists fall into is pride. Similar to the technology community ;)

Interesting assumption of yours - where in my post did I identify [myself] as a Buddhist?

Thanks for telling what PG said in a self-refutingly hilarious way.

Also, Buddhism (Buddhists comprising it) has a huge ego itself. It should let go of its own ego soon :)

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