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NoorE, on Today, 00:12 , said:

Maitreya's teachings...???..... what teachings? Maitreya does not yet exist, so how can he have any teachings. Maitreya is the name of the FUTURE Buddha. Right now this being is resting in Tushita heaven. He will come and take final rebirth, as a Prince, like all Buddhas, and then eventually become the Buddha Meitreya.
Upon his deathbed before attaining to Parinibbana the Buddha Gotama said that he had held nothing back, there was no need for a replacement as head of his religion since he had taught everthing necessary for reaching Nibbana in his Dhamma. No secret teachings, no special revealings, we had it all right then. If we choose to think we are better than him and look for hidden meanings and better (our own ego driven) interpretations, we are deluded.

I am afraid that you are a member of a cult. One with Christian leanings, trying to find some relevance to Buddhism, and twisting any scriptures you find from any religion to suit your own agenda.

NoorE, on Yesterday, 07:30 , said:

If we are going to talk about Buddhism and the coming of Meitreya...then forget about messengers of God or any such thing. The Buddha taught nothing about God because his existence is illogical, and even if he were to exist he would be irrelevant in our task to reach the ultimate goal in life.....Nibbana and the escape from suffering. Anyone who talks about god and the bible is not Buddhist and therefore not qualified to say that the Buddhas did this or that or said this or that since they have their own agenda.
Buddhas do not come to reveal all truths but just the ones necessary for practice to escape suffering. They reaveal the whole of such necessary knowledge, not only a part. Anyone saying that there were later revealings of secret teachings, or further turnings of the wheel of dhamma are deluded and go against the Buddhas own teachings.
The Buddhas do not try or expect to bring peace on earth, there are too many ignorant beings for that to happen, so they just try to help as many beings as are prepared to listen, knowing that this is only a small percentage.

Meitreya is the name of the next Buddha to come. He will be the fifth Buddha in this present Aeon and the last, until future aeons.
The present Buddha, Gotama, predicted that his dhamma would last for about five thousdand years. Now we are just over half-way at 2,600 years and we can already see the deteriation in following by both lay and clergy.
The Buddha said that his dhamma would last as long as there was no false dhamma. The false dhamma finds favour by the lazy lay followers and monks who cannot be bothered with the real practice.
There was never any prediction that the next Buddha, Meitreya would arrive in 5,000 years. This is a misunderstanding. Meitrya is presently waiting in the Tushita heaven, as all Boddhisattas do, before the time is right to come and take their final rebirth.
It is impossible for two Buddhas to come at the same time, and since the Buddha Gotama's time is not yet over, another cannot come yet.
Before deciding if the time is correct to come down and take rebirth they have to consider two things. One: they can only take rebirth when the human lifespan is decreasing...as it is presently. Remember that in nature all things go in cycles and the lifespan of humans is one such cycle, from a very short lifespan of ten years to a very long lifespan of more than 100,000 years. Two: Buddhas only appear when the lifespan is betwee the limits of 100,000 years and 100 years. SO we are now outside those limits. We must wait for the cycle to fall to the lowest point of ten years and then reach the highest point and start to fall again.
It is predicted that the Buddha Meitreya will come when the human lifespan has fallen to 80,000 years.
His dhamma will last for only 270,000 years which is just three lifetimes, compared to the present 5,000 years of 100 year lifespans so therefore 50 lifetimes. Buddha Gotasma came when the human lifespan was just a tad over 100 years.
Remeber that a lidespan is taken on average throughout the world, and means dying of old age, not from sickness or other unatural cause.
We can therefore see that it will be many millions of years before the time will be right for Meitreya to arrive.
Of the three earlier Buddhas in this aeon, one came when the human lifespan was 60,000 years, another when it was 40,000 years, and another at 20,000 years.

The photo is too poor to be able to read anything on it....

"The new method of opening the phone via face recognition is fun but having to look at my ugly mug each time's a bit depressing!"

is thisa only on the S2...how about the Note?   and how to start it?

It is the new version of Android..the Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 operating system which replaces the old 3.0 Gingerbread.
Many new features I believe, and some more controls like being able to disable some apps which came with the phone and use better alternatives or just not use ones which we don't need and use space and resources....etc.