Hi All,
I've been lurking on here for a few weeks. Thought I'd finally say hello.
I came across Buddhism around 5 years ago after my Mum passed away. I attended a couple of courses at the Manchester Buddhist Centre which is an FWBO/Triratna centre. I related very much to Buddhism but found it.very hard to keep attending due to a change in job. Last year I also attended a dhammakaya temple which is very local to me. I found it so very "serene" but struggled with it mainly catering for Thai people, nothing wrong with that but it did make my visits a little uncomfortable as an outsider.
Since then I've read more and more into Theravada and it does seem to call to me more so than any other tradition I've come across so far.
So this is just a big hello to everyone!
David
Hello from Manchester, UK
Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Welcome David!
Mike
Mike
Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Welcome David!
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.
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Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Welcome David! Look forward to reading your posts.
with metta
Chris
with metta
Chris
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Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
There are at least two other Theravāda centres in Manchester.
The Saraniya Dhamma Meditation Centre Burmese Mahāsi Tradition
and:
The Ketumati Vihara Sri Lankan Tradition
The Saraniya Dhamma Meditation Centre Burmese Mahāsi Tradition
and:
The Ketumati Vihara Sri Lankan Tradition
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Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Hi David and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
“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.
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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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e: [email protected]..
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Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
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Greetings,
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.
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Retro.
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Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:There are at least two other Theravāda centres in Manchester.
The Saraniya Dhamma Meditation Centre Burmese Mahāsi Tradition
and:
The Ketumati Vihara Sri Lankan Tradition
Metta,
Retro.
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Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Welcome.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Thank you for the welcomes everyone! and thank you for recommending the centres, I will have to check them out!
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Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Hello and welcome. I also live in Manchester
Re: Hello from Manchester, UK
Nice to meet a local
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Well, I'm an Essex boy, but I've been living in Manchester for around 10 years now. 'twill be just one more year until I emigrate back down southrapidx wrote:Nice to meet a local