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What is it to be human? What makes you a human being?

Sentience or the ability to experience all the diverse experiences avaliable on this planet? Is it because we experience then analyse those experiences over and over, reliving them and trying different scenarios? Our desire to find a path? Is it emotion, emotional content- empathy and our desire to nuture?

Auctore Deo

It sounds suspiciously like Maitreya, the next Buddha, the one due to arrive in a few thousand years. Attempts to bring him sooner have been made unsuccessfully by New Age type groups like the Theosophical Society. Others have just attempted to extend their life expectancy so as to be around still when Maitreya arrives. Both groups are wrong.

http://www.windhorse.com.au/details.asp?TitleCode=2097

The link is to a commentary on the Uttaratantra.