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- Sun May 15, 2011 8:25 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: internet radio
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1833
Re: internet radio
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- Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Control and Ownership of Temples
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3933
Re: The Control and Ownership of Temples
Perth incident?
- Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:46 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Motorcycling Dilemma
- Replies: 2
- Views: 990
Re: Motorcycling Dilemma
I ride solo and don't stop often.
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:30 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Getting together.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3183
Re: Getting together.
Anyone in the Houston area have any interest in an Dhamma wheel coffee sometime?
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:06 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Do you find Hinayana offensive?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 53170
Re: Do you find Hinayana offensive?
I find it discouraging.
- Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:38 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Dhamma Wheel meetings
- Replies: 85
- Views: 198806
Re: Dhamma Wheel meetings
Encouraging, Thanks.
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:51 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Getting together.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3183
Re: Getting together.
Hi Mike, Formal as in activities at or related to the temple, watt, monks. Other than polite chatting at the temple I have no experience with other Buddhist outside of cyberspace. The suttas seem to encourage the fostering of lay relationships, I had hoped to draw from others experiences to give me ...
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:33 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Do you celebrate Christmas?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6838
Re: Do you celebrate Christmas?
We do in my home and family, I enjoy it.
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:22 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Getting together.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3183
Re: Getting together.
I get the impression that most lay followers have no desire for personal contact away from a formal setting.
Do you get together with others Sanghamitta?
Do you get together with others Sanghamitta?
- Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:27 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Getting together.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3183
Getting together.
Do you ever feel a need to socialize with other lay Theravada Buddhists in your area?
I have become a recluse myself but often wonder is this would be personally and or spiritually beneficial.
I have become a recluse myself but often wonder is this would be personally and or spiritually beneficial.
- Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:50 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Do you smoke?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 14649
Re: Do you smoke?
Heavy smoker for 25+ yrs, I quit in late 2006.
Thanks to The Dhamma, Alan Carrs book, and Chantix.
Thanks to The Dhamma, Alan Carrs book, and Chantix.
- Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:55 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: First Noble Truth - dukkha?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11081
Re: First Noble Truth - dukkha?
(DN22) "Now what is the noble truth of stress? Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the unbeloved is stressful; separation from the loved is stressful; not getting what one wants is stress...
- Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:17 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Spreading Buddhism
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15037
Re: Spreading Buddhism
IMHO
Following the path and maintaining the precepts promotes the Dhamma to those who's kamma has allowed them be receptive to it.
Please support the Sangha however you can.
Following the path and maintaining the precepts promotes the Dhamma to those who's kamma has allowed them be receptive to it.
Please support the Sangha however you can.
- Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:36 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Does metta-bhavana literally impact others?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8919
Re: Does metta-bhavana literally impact others?
I tend to agree with clw_uk's view but try to keep an open mind.
If I practice metta with equanimity does it matter?
If I practice metta with equanimity does it matter?
- Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:53 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What does grasping mean?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5069
Re: What does grasping mean?
Wanting for something or a feeling to not leave or change.