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by plwk
Mon Mar 13, 2017 6:00 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: The Official Dhamma Wheel Cat Thread
Replies: 162
Views: 35111

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by plwk
Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:59 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: The Official Dhamma Wheel Cat Thread
Replies: 162
Views: 35111

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by plwk
Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:59 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: The Official Dhamma Wheel Cat Thread
Replies: 162
Views: 35111

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by plwk
Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:19 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: On Speaking Ill of the Dead
Replies: 2
Views: 1311

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The late Hitchens was no holds barred...
by plwk
Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:17 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: On Speaking Ill of the Dead
Replies: 2
Views: 1311

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Would you? And why not? And why yes?
by plwk
Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:10 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Who are these Devas responsible for creation?
Replies: 21
Views: 4528

Re: Who are these Devas responsible for creation?

Right.. I rest my case. Back to you SarathW :focus:
by plwk
Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:23 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Who are these Devas responsible for creation?
Replies: 21
Views: 4528

Re: Who are these Devas responsible for creation?

And which part of Buddhism is 'scientific' if I may ask?
by plwk
Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:00 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: How did you learn to love reading books?
Replies: 62
Views: 12025

Re: How did you learn to love reading books?

So how did you learn to love to read?
It's a threefold thingy for me: an inspiring high school history teacher, did English Literature in college and self empowerment from total dependence on the government of the day and religious teachers.
by plwk
Wed Mar 08, 2017 2:35 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Desert Island books religious/secular/mixture
Replies: 43
Views: 8619

Re: Desert Island books religious/secular/mixture

What five religious books would you bring to a desert island? 1 2 3 4 5 What five secular fiction books would you bring? The Four Classics & The Bostonians What five secular non-fiction books would you bring? 1 2 3 4 5 What five would you bring if it could be a mixture of the three? 1 2 3 4 5
by plwk
Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:02 am
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: Which beverages do you mostly take?
Replies: 28
Views: 9598

Re: Which beverages do you mostly take?

cāya śaraṇaṃ gacchāmi :mrgreen:
by plwk
Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:49 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Tea and coffee at temples
Replies: 19
Views: 14657

Re: Tea and coffee at temples

For three years I lived in a Northern Thai mountain village where it was too high to grow rice and so the main crop was mieng — green tea that's munched like chewing gum with a bit of salt. Despite long and frequent exposure to it, I was never able to acquire a taste for it. To me it's just unbelie...
by plwk
Sun Feb 19, 2017 2:03 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Brahmacariyā among the devas
Replies: 18
Views: 3290

Re: Brahmacariyā among the devas

Maṇḍūka, the deity’s son, and others illustrate this. While the Blessed One was teaching the Dhamma to the inhabitants of the city of Campā on the banks of the Gaggarā Lake, it seems, a frog apprehended a sign in the Blessed One’s voice. A cowherd who was standing leaning on a stick put his stick o...
by plwk
Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:46 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
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Views: 525335

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by plwk
Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:45 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
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Views: 525335

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by plwk
Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:47 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: The Official Dhamma Wheel Cat Thread
Replies: 162
Views: 35111

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