I have greatly missed his presence in these forums!
With metta,
Sherubtse
Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
I am very glad to hear that he will be well enough to return to moderating duties next week.
I have greatly missed his presence in these forums!
With metta,
Sherubtse
I have greatly missed his presence in these forums!
With metta,
Sherubtse
Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
I'm very relieved to hear that his health has improved!
With kind wishes,
Dazzle
With kind wishes,
Dazzle
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Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
Greetings,
Thank you all for your kind wishes. As my friend Martin reported via Retro, the malaria was quickly cured but the cellulitis proved a little more refractory and I’m still not free of it. I can now walk again, but the antibiotics haven’t stopped the infection and so the right foot and calf are still in constant pain. I’ve been discharged from the Sangha Hospital and tomorrow will take up a kind offer from Khun Salil, one of my Abhidhamma teachers, to be tested and treated at a much better equipped private hospital. I regret that it may be a few more days yet before I return to full participation in this forum.
Still, things could be a lot worse: in the bed opposite mine at the Sangha Hospital there was a Belgian monk who was likewise admitted for cellulitis; unfortunately his case was complicated by diabetes, which resulted in his having his right leg amputated.
Dhammanando Bhikkhu
Thank you all for your kind wishes. As my friend Martin reported via Retro, the malaria was quickly cured but the cellulitis proved a little more refractory and I’m still not free of it. I can now walk again, but the antibiotics haven’t stopped the infection and so the right foot and calf are still in constant pain. I’ve been discharged from the Sangha Hospital and tomorrow will take up a kind offer from Khun Salil, one of my Abhidhamma teachers, to be tested and treated at a much better equipped private hospital. I regret that it may be a few more days yet before I return to full participation in this forum.
Still, things could be a lot worse: in the bed opposite mine at the Sangha Hospital there was a Belgian monk who was likewise admitted for cellulitis; unfortunately his case was complicated by diabetes, which resulted in his having his right leg amputated.
- “Householder, who would claim even a moment’s health, while yet carrying this body about, what else is he but a fool?”
(Nakulapitasutta)
Dhammanando Bhikkhu
Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.
In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
(Sn. 588)
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.
In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
(Sn. 588)
Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
Bhante,
A heartfelt welcome back.
Reminds me of a talk I heard somewhere about a patient who goes to the doctor with a correct perspective on illness. He says: "Doctor, there's something right with me. I'm sick again."
Metta
A heartfelt welcome back.
Reminds me of a talk I heard somewhere about a patient who goes to the doctor with a correct perspective on illness. He says: "Doctor, there's something right with me. I'm sick again."
Metta
Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
Welcome back Bhante... 
Metta
Mike
Metta
Mike
Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
Very glad to hear you are on the mend.
And if you'll pardon a small half-tongue-in-cheek observation: Hospitals are like Buddhism: We go to them to get better, but we only know we've gotten better when we get out.
Best wishes for continued recovery.
And if you'll pardon a small half-tongue-in-cheek observation: Hospitals are like Buddhism: We go to them to get better, but we only know we've gotten better when we get out.
Best wishes for continued recovery.
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Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
I was unaware Ven. Dhammanando was ill. I'm am very genuinely happy to hear they he is well again in body. It's good to see the support hear.
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." -Buddha
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Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
It is good to hear the good news
Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
Bhante,
I am glad to hear you are on the mend.
I am glad to hear you are on the mend.
- Peter
Be heedful and you will accomplish your goal.
Be heedful and you will accomplish your goal.
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Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
Good to see you back Bhante, to straighten us out. You'r work is cut out for you. 
J
J
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Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
I'm glad you're well, Dhammanando.
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Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
It is good to see you back, even if just for a temporary time.
The other monk had his leg amputated? Ouch! Thank goodness you will be better without that!
The other monk had his leg amputated? Ouch! Thank goodness you will be better without that!
Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
Welcome back Ajahn!
Metta
Ben
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
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Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
I'm so glad you're better, Bhante.
Best wishes,
Drolma
Best wishes,
Drolma
Re: Venerable Dhammanando away for a few days, unwell (update 3)
It is indeed great news to learn that you are better, Bhante. And I very much look forward to reading your words of wisdom again in these forums.
With metta,
Shereubtse
With metta,
Shereubtse