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Fruit and Enlightenment

~Fruit and Enlightenment~

The Apple and Fig Tree, Buddha experienced enlightenments under.

After a period of fasting to the point of near death he recalled his childhood meditating under a rose apple tree. He vowed, "Even if my flesh and blood were to

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Pythagoreans

Information some here may find interesting.

This development is, of course, not unconnected with the Pythagorean revival in philosophy. But by then the Pythagorean ban on eating meat had been reinforced by a philosophical tradition going back to Theop

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