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sshai45
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Hi.

I've got some interest in Buddhism and like to study it, but am not a practitioner. (Do you have to be a Buddhist to discuss on these forums?)
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Ben
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Hi sshai45 and welcome to Dhamma Wheel.
Everyone is welcome at Dhamma Wheel, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, so long has a genuine interest in the Theravada and abides by our terms of service.
I look forward to your contributions!

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.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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sshai45
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Thanks!
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Welcome aboard!
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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
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vidar
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Welcome to Dhamma Wheel sshai45 :hello:
All the world is on fire, All the world is burning, All the world is ablaze, All the world is quaking. That which does not quake or blaze, That to which worldlings do not resort, Where there is no place for Mara:That is where my mind delights. (SN 5.7)

By degrees, little by little,
from moment to moment,
the wise purify themselves,
as a smith purifies silver.
—Dhammapada 239
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Welcome! I hope you find whatever it is you're looking for.
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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Welcome sshai45!

:anjali:
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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