Hello all,
Joe D(aka Ferox) here from New Jersey,USA, glad to be here and looking forward to exploring the dhamma with you all. I'm a 33 year old lay disciple and I took the refuge and precepts near on five years ago on vesak 2008 although I'd suspect like most I've come to feel that I was a Buddhist my whole life and didn't realize it until I found Buddhism and in particular Theravada.
I work for child protective services in my state and recently started my own photography business. I don't have a real life sangha close to me( I visit NJ Buddhist Vihara in Princeton which is an hour from me, Bodhi Monastery which is about two hours, and Bhavana Society in West Virginia which is 5 hours) and I'm the only Buddhist I know in my daily life. I am a member of the virtual sangha of "The Buddha Center" on the virtual online world Second Life(as Ferox) and I do some work there.
my practice has increased and progressed over the years, I started meditating almost 10 years ago however I would say I never really put in the practice and started to "get anywhere" until the last year. I've started going to meditation retreats(3 day at Bodhi Monastery and 5 day at Bhavana Society) and through real life and virtual world contact with monastics and teachers I feel I am on the right path. for a few years now there has been a growing feeling inside of me towards entering the homeless life and as the years have gone by the pull only gets stronger, I feel at this point that it is inevitable I will enter into the homeless life and it's more a question as to when then if. That is one topic I hope to explore with all of you here, among many others.
once again, great to be here and I look forward to meeting everyone.
Greetings Dhamma Friends!
Greetings Dhamma Friends!
-just one more being treading the ancient path of Dhamma-
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Hi Joe
Thanks for the great intro and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I hope you find here some inspiration and wise companionship!
with metta,
Ben
Thanks for the great intro and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I hope you find here some inspiration and wise companionship!
with metta,
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Welcome Joe!
The watched mind brings happiness.
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman
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Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
with metta
Chris
with metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Welcome Joe!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
- BB
- BB
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Welcome joe
Suffering is asking from life what it can never give you.
If you see any unskillful speech (or other action) from me let me know, so I can learn from it.mindfulness, bliss and beyond (page 8) wrote:Do not linger on the past. Do not keep carrying around coffins full of dead moments