Hello all,
Has anybody read "Selfless Persons" by Steven Collins?
And, if so, what do you think?
metta
cooran
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Selfless Persons - Steven Collins
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Selfless Persons - Steven Collins
by cooran » Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:01 am
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Re: Selfless Persons - Steven Collins
by tiltbillings » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:54 pm
It has been years since I have read it, but it is good. He is a reliable sympathetic scholar of things Theravada.
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: Selfless Persons - Steven Collins
by cooran » Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:30 pm
Thanks Tilt 
I already have the book - one of those bought and set aside for when I have time. But I'll start this one soon, as it has the tick of approval.
metta
Chris
I already have the book - one of those bought and set aside for when I have time. But I'll start this one soon, as it has the tick of approval.
metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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