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Hello from Champaign, IL!!

Postby InfiniteSummer » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:02 am

Hello Dhamma Wheel...
Seems I am shy on these introduction posts.
So I'll just say it's very nice to be here. :smile:
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Re: Hello from Champaign, IL!!

Postby tiltbillings » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:05 am

Welcome.

What is the use of his knowledge
pertaining to the number of insects in the whole world?
Rather, inquire into his knowledge of
that which is to be practised by us
-- Dharmakirti

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond.
SN I, 38.

Níl sa saol seo ach ceo
There is naught in this life but mist
Is ní bheimid beo ach seal beag gearr.
And we will not be alive but a short hard time.
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Re: Hello from Champaign, IL!!

Postby Khalil Bodhi » Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:25 am

Welcome to DW!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183

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Re: Hello from Champaign, IL!!

Postby cooran » Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:39 am

Welcome Infinite Summer! :group:

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---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Re: Hello from Champaign, IL!!

Postby David N. Snyder » Tue Dec 11, 2012 4:56 pm

:hello:
:toast:
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Re: Hello from Champaign, IL!!

Postby InfiniteSummer » Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:27 pm

Thx for the warm welcome :)

The joke thread is :bow: btw... :clap:
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Re: Hello from Champaign, IL!!

Postby Ben » Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:30 pm

Greetings and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
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Re: Hello from Champaign, IL!!

Postby Richard » Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:07 am

Greetings, InfiniteSummer--
I am also in Champaign, Illinois. You might not know about the Prairie Sangha, a group which meets on Monday evenings for meditation. It's the only Theravada-related group around. I can tell you more about it, or you can see http://www.prairiesangha.org. Or perhaps I already know you there? At any rate, welcome to this forum, which I look at nearly every day.
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