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In reply to the discussion: Gene Wilder - Atheist [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)17. If he was Buddhist, one way of looking at it is to say that all things contain the Buddha nature.
or to put it another way, at death the illusions of separateness, ego, and the finite dissolve into oneness with all things. So in a way one could say he's "with Gilda" (or, they never were apart) because like her he's everything again, not that 'they' ever truly stopped.
This is of course just my own paltry attempt at putting words around one interpretation, as another Jewish-Buddhist-Atheist. No more or less valid than anyone else's, I guess.
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You accused me of preaching, so I figured I owed you a little pulpit thumping, so to speak.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#30
If he was Buddhist, one way of looking at it is to say that all things contain the Buddha nature.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#17