Birthday the atta/jati celerbration

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Hanzze
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Re: Birthday the atta/jati celerbration

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I guess the wise can use nearly everything, but for most a good explaining is much more useful as to let it just run it's way without irritation.
Just that! *smile*
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html

BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
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Re: Birthday the atta/jati celerbration

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Ben, I guess it's tough for some not to be a sour grape mullah or a whinning monger when others are celebrating...or not :roll: :tongue:
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Re: Birthday the atta/jati celerbration

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plwk wrote:Ben, I guess it's tough for some not to be a sour grape mullah or a whinning monger when others are celebrating...or not :roll: :tongue:
Too true, plwk!
Its good to practice a wee bit of sympathetic joy.
kind regards,

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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Re: Birthday the atta/jati celerbration

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Or karuna.
Just that! *smile*
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html

BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
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