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metta wheel
by tiltbillings » Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:31 pm
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: metta wheel
by Viscid » Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:40 am
uh huh.
"What holds attention determines action." - William James
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Re: metta wheel
by danieLion » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:40 am
kull
"You stop me, obviously with a demand for a personal explanation. 'How is it, you write, 'that you reject with such immitigable scorn the very foundation-stones of Buddhism, and yet refer disciples enthusiastically to the technique of some of its subtlest super-structures?'
I laff."
-Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter XXVII: Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)
"Questions of reality are too important to be left to the scientists."
-Paul Feyerbend, The Tyranny of Science, p. 51 (Polity: 2012).
I laff."
-Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter XXVII: Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)
"Questions of reality are too important to be left to the scientists."
-Paul Feyerbend, The Tyranny of Science, p. 51 (Polity: 2012).
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Re: metta wheel
by tiltbillings » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:45 am
Now, that is an obscure reference.danieLion wrote:kull
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: metta wheel
by danieLion » Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:16 am
how my mom used to say "cool"...she grew up in Pickleville, Utah (now Garden City)tiltbillings wrote:Now, that is an obscure reference.danieLion wrote:kull
"You stop me, obviously with a demand for a personal explanation. 'How is it, you write, 'that you reject with such immitigable scorn the very foundation-stones of Buddhism, and yet refer disciples enthusiastically to the technique of some of its subtlest super-structures?'
I laff."
-Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter XXVII: Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)
"Questions of reality are too important to be left to the scientists."
-Paul Feyerbend, The Tyranny of Science, p. 51 (Polity: 2012).
I laff."
-Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter XXVII: Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)
"Questions of reality are too important to be left to the scientists."
-Paul Feyerbend, The Tyranny of Science, p. 51 (Polity: 2012).
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Re: metta wheel
by tiltbillings » Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:18 am
I think I like Pickleville better.danieLion wrote:how my mom used to say "cool"...she grew up in Pickleville, Utah (now Garden City)tiltbillings wrote:Now, that is an obscure reference.danieLion wrote:kull
It is too bad that the there is not a translation of the Burmese on that website.
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: metta wheel
by yawares » Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:02 pm
Dear tiltbillings,
Your METTA WHEEL ...so cool
"This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond." .... SO TRUE !!
yawares
Your METTA WHEEL ...so cool
"This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond." .... SO TRUE !!
yawares
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