Hello everybody, i am extremely pleased to be signed up to this site and able to communicate with you all.
I am very new to Buddhism, and I am very keen to learn as much as possible. For me Buddhism is something i stumbled upon while going about my daily life, and only very recently have i descovered that the Theravada school is something that is almost identical in theory to my own ideas born out of merely thinking about what i consider to be logical.
I have felt for a long time that what i considered to be an intelligent and compassionate way forward was not represented by any established group. I could not have been more wrong! There are many many thingsi wish to learn, and this website i hope will help me to connect to the sangha as it were. I thought this would be one of the more difficult areas of my education, connecting to a community, it seems it may be easier than I thought. Even though I am an English native speaker living in Germany, this website could provide me with the connection i need to go forward.
At present, I can honestly say, there is nothing about the Theravada school that i am not interested in learning, and I am thrilled to have found so many useful and interesting resources and other Theravadins.
It is somewhat difficult to communicate without personal pronouns, as a matter of English So i assume for the sake of the community and forum it is normal to talk in these terms. And once again, fondest greetings to you all!
Finally found you!
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Welcome, Ren, and I hope you'll find everything of use to you here.
(Forgive the abbreviation of your name...but buddies do that, anyway.....right?)
(Forgive the abbreviation of your name...but buddies do that, anyway.....right?)
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Re: Finally found you!
Welcome Renlaenderin!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
- BB
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Re: Finally found you!
Hello Renlaenderin,
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel! Look forward to reading your posts on the forums.
with metta
Chris
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel! Look forward to reading your posts on the forums.
with metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Finally found you!
Welcome!
Re: Finally found you!
Greetings Ren and welcome to Dhamma Wheel.
Please feel free to speak in plain English and there is no need to drop personal pronouns.
kind regards,
Ben
Please feel free to speak in plain English and there is no need to drop personal pronouns.
kind regards,
Ben
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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.
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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
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Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
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Re: Finally found you!
Hello everyone,
Thanks for the warm welcome! You can call me Ren, a lot of people do. I expect i will be spending a lot of time here from now on so when i break away from visiting the family in England you should expect to see me pouring over your thoughts regularly. The last time i was this excited about studying and learning anything was a very very long time ago.
Its beautiful to feel so welcome
Thanks for the warm welcome! You can call me Ren, a lot of people do. I expect i will be spending a lot of time here from now on so when i break away from visiting the family in England you should expect to see me pouring over your thoughts regularly. The last time i was this excited about studying and learning anything was a very very long time ago.
Its beautiful to feel so welcome
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Greetings Ren,
Welcome.
Metta,
Retro.
Welcome.
Metta,
Retro.
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Welcome!
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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-Dhp. 183
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Welcome :)
Suffering is asking from life what it can never give you.
If you see any unskillful speech (or other action) from me let me know, so I can learn from it.mindfulness, bliss and beyond (page 8) wrote:Do not linger on the past. Do not keep carrying around coffins full of dead moments