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by Nicholas Weeks
Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:12 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Tipitaka Quotations
Replies: 44
Views: 1640

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...
by Nicholas Weeks
Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Tipitaka Quotations
Replies: 44
Views: 1640

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...
by Nicholas Weeks
Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: In Praise of Virtue
Replies: 262
Views: 130368

Re: In Praise of Virtue

When you do not take an interest in the affairs of government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
Plato
by Nicholas Weeks
Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: Suggestion box
Topic: Numbering Posts
Replies: 2
Views: 713

Re: Numbering Posts

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.
If that number could be seen in all posts of a thread after posting - but it cannot.
by Nicholas Weeks
Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:23 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Free Jataka Ebook: EPUB, Kindle
Replies: 7
Views: 1265

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...
by Nicholas Weeks
Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: In Praise of Virtue
Replies: 262
Views: 130368

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...
by Nicholas Weeks
Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:19 am
Forum: Suggestion box
Topic: Numbering Posts
Replies: 2
Views: 713

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.
by Nicholas Weeks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:49 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Yoga Vasistha
Replies: 15
Views: 2582

Re: Yoga Vasistha

Sam Vara wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:40 pm What's the connection to Theravada?
My OP says: "It has surprising conceptual similarities with Buddhism in places." If it must be spelled out - note the verses on tranquillity, contentment, effort for example.
by Nicholas Weeks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:31 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Yoga Vasistha
Replies: 15
Views: 2582

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 ...
by Nicholas Weeks
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: 5544

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...
by Nicholas Weeks
Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:40 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Theosophy
Replies: 313
Views: 115513

Re: Theosophy

Part of one summary of The Secret Doctrine:

https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd-extract.htm
by Nicholas Weeks
Sun Dec 31, 2023 8:54 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Theosophy
Replies: 313
Views: 115513

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...
by Nicholas Weeks
Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:15 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Theosophy
Replies: 313
Views: 115513

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
by Nicholas Weeks
Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:58 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: A poetry thread.
Replies: 34
Views: 4403

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...
by Nicholas Weeks
Sat Dec 30, 2023 4:28 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Theosophy
Replies: 313
Views: 115513

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...