well in buddhism, the goal is to reach attainment or nirvana and become 'enlightened' which basically means free from this suffering, this birth-death cycle.
and with karma, how you act in this life, affects your next life. heh. 'my lifestyle determines my deathstyle'. i think of it as a ladder.. people being higher or lower in the ladder depending on how much further they are to enlightenment. so in short, all people are not created equally :-x at least in this theory. *shrugs*
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin
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