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- Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:24 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Grass, Sticks, and The Mountain
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2618
Re: Grass, Sticks, and The Mountain
Thank you Cittasanto. I will take some time to think on your response.
- Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:35 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Grass, Sticks, and The Mountain
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2618
Re: Grass, Sticks, and The Mountain
Hi everyone, thank you for the insightful responses. The difficult takes time — the impossible takes longer. Hello Bhante... is it correct to understand by this statement that the difficult is preferable to the impossible? The teaching helps me to stop trying to relieve suffering in the wrong way, b...
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:43 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Grass, Sticks, and The Mountain
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2618
Re: Grass, Sticks, and The Mountain
Hi polarbuddha101, thank you for the response. Very nicely put.
Although the academic community would be very upset to hear this… but I suppose the onus is on them.polarbuddha101 wrote:searching for answers about the temporal duration of the universe is stupid and a waste of time.
- Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:19 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Grass, Sticks, and The Mountain
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2618
Grass, Sticks, and The Mountain
Hello everyone, I am writing this post to gain some insight into the teaching of “samsara without discoverable beginning.” I have tried searching the forum for a direct discussion on this subject but have not found one. If there is something I have overlooked please point me in the right direction. ...
- Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:43 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 2180
- Views: 529544
Re: What music are you listening to right now?
Amanké Dionti by Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze
Senegalese vocals and kora merged with a German jazz trumpeter.... Yes Please!!
Senegalese vocals and kora merged with a German jazz trumpeter.... Yes Please!!
- Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:54 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings from Pennsylvania
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2167
Re: Greetings from Pennsylvania
Dhammanando... I hope they were helpful. :D I scarcely followed world news at all in 2008. This is a very enviable position in so many ways. Often time’s world news and politics seem nothing more than the world’s biggest recurring soap opera… with the same themes, characters, and plot lines. Each ti...
- Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:04 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings from Pennsylvania
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2167
Re: Greetings from Pennsylvania
Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. (I am curious as to how the Buddha would have viewed modern finance in the context of Right Livelihood given what we all now know post 2008) What is it that everyone (except me, it seems) now knows about modern finance post-2008? Dhammanando... I am afraid th...
- Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:46 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings from Pennsylvania
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2167
Greetings from Pennsylvania
Hello Everyone. It is a pleasure to finally introduce myself. I have been a casual visitor to DhammaWheel for some time now and learned a great deal from the myriad discussions on this forum. The hope now is that through active participation there will be much more wisdom to be had. As a brief intro...