...to look up at those who have already been there and follow instructions.

When hatred is everywhere, please contact Buddha right away. I your mind and dont let him go- in fact, May He simply live in you so much that you develop mircaulous powers you will think. Jesus lives in me and takes on the pain that would make me laugh it hurts too much to stay sane. So when I am in real pain, i never laugh unless there is a real joke. When I feel like laughing because I cannot hold the physical pain, i pray to Buddha or Jesus. Jesus works best for me as he is the pro in expert phycial pain. Buddha however, is the best for my mind. These are my two religions though every monk now says buddhism is a philosophy not a religion. i wonder why they are monastics then, hein? I suspect they just say that to appease the christians and maybe for real, it will become tradition to speak of buddhism that way int he west. always. a version for the west.