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- Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:12 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Tipitaka Quotations
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1736
Re: Tipitaka Quotations
1086. “The dispelling of desire and lust, Hemaka, for things here seen, heard, sensed, and cognized— for whatever has a pleasing nature— is the state of nibbāna, the imperishable. 1087. “Having understood this, those mindful ones are quenched in this very life. And always peaceful, they have crosse...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Tipitaka Quotations
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1736
Re: Tipitaka Quotations
1068. “Whatever you comprehend (Dhotaka,” said the Blessed One), “above, below, and across in the middle, having understood this as ‘a tie’ in the world, do not create craving for various states of existence. Suttanipata, Dhotaka Questions , Bhikkhu Bodhi translator 1074. “As a flame, thrown by a g...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: In Praise of Virtue
- Replies: 262
- Views: 131176
Re: In Praise of Virtue
PlatoWhen you do not take an interest in the affairs of government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Suggestion box
- Topic: Numbering Posts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 740
Re: Numbering Posts
If that number could be seen in all posts of a thread after posting - but it cannot.SarathW wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:41 am viewtopic.php?p=750251#p750251
Please note the number above .
What is this number which is unique to each post I beleive.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Free Jataka Ebook: EPUB, Kindle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1271
Re: Free Jataka
https://sacred-texts.com/bud/j1/index.htm This link is volume one, but links to the other five are also there. Chalmers is translator, Cowell editor. Cowell's Preface begins: It was an almost isolated incident in Greek literary history, when Pythagoras claimed to remember his previous lives. Heracl...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: In Praise of Virtue
- Replies: 262
- Views: 131176
Re: In Praise of Virtue
One’s friend is oneself alone. One’s enemy is oneself alone. If the self is not protected by oneself, then, there is no other means. In the destruction of all innate dispositions, the preeminence of man (by way of human effort) is complete. The mind indeed gives the fruit of the mind without impedi...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:19 am
- Forum: Suggestion box
- Topic: Numbering Posts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 740
Numbering Posts
Would help in referring to or finding a specific post or posts if each one had a number in upper right corner maybe. The OP would be 1, the next 2 and so forth.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Yoga Vasistha
- Replies: 15
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- Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Yoga Vasistha
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2645
Re: Yoga Vasistha
Only Self-knowledge is the means to tranquillity. 139. (The Wise) understand Self-knowledge (alone) as knowledge. On the contrary, those other knowings are (only) false knowledge on account of non-perception of the real truth (or the essence). 140. Let one rule over the world or enter the cloud or ...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY U.S. HAS RETRIEVED CRAFT OF NON-HUMAN ORIGIN
- Replies: 75
- Views: 5697
Re: INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY U.S. HAS RETRIEVED CRAFT OF NON-HUMAN ORIGIN
US Dept of Defense set this up recently: https://www.aaro.mil Welcome to the website for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Our team of experts is leading the U.S. government’s efforts to address Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) using a rigorous scientific framework and a data-dr...
Re: Theosophy
http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/assets/Living_the_Life_by_Wadia.pdf B.P. Wadia (d.1958) was an influential theosophist. Above is Living The Life , a book of his articles. This how the first article begins: THE LIVING POWER OF THEOSOPHY One of the difficulties under which students of Theosophy labour i...
Re: Theosophy
This Theosophy site is full of excellent articles, books and pamphlets - all in PDF format:
http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/index.html
http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/index.html
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:58 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: A poetry thread.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4505
Re: A poetry thread.
Night Heart-hidden from the outer things I rose ; The spirit woke anew in nightly birth Unto the vastness where forever glows The star-soul of the earth. There all alone in primal ecstasy, Within her depths where revels never tire, The olden Beauty shines : each thought of me Is veined through with...
Re: Theosophy
Bhavanishankar was a disciple of one of the Brothers that HPB also knew. He wrote on the Bhagavad Gita ; here are some of his articles from the Aryan Path of 1930s: https://blavatskytheosophy.com/the-teachings-of-bhavani-shankar/ He also wrote a book on themes in the Gita: http://www.phx-ult-lodge.o...