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Challenge23
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Hello from New Jersey!

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Hello,

I came here from Dharma Wheel after I saw an essay I quoted from posted here.

My experience with Buddhism is almost exclusively from the Mahayana perspective and I am hoping to get some alternate opinions in regards to certain questions that I have about the Dhamma.

Please forgive any ignorance on my part and excuse the fact that my questions may seem foolish or basic. Also understand that I don't ask rhetorical questions and am pretty strict in regards to rules of logic. For example, my latest pet peeve is attempting to define things negatively(which is impossible).

Thank you,
James
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:hello:

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!

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Welcome!

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Welcome James! Look forward to reading more from you. :group:

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Greetings James and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
“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.”
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Welcome James!
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.

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Welcome James!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
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