Hello from Sydney

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Christian
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Hello from Sydney

Post by Christian »

Hello all,

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to introduce myself here.

I have been a 'Buddhist' for several years but this year my practice has kinda disappeared. Having been emotionally (and physically) tested lately by the world, I am trying to build my practice back up so I can deal with some of the anger that I seem to be harboring (or 'Turbocharging' as Firefox's spell checker prompted me with, strangely apt.)

I have spent a bit of time at a Sangha for the Vajrajyan tradition, but the practitioners there were fiercely secular, which is perfectly fine but I am a more spiritual person and needed a deeper connection, which led me to a Plum Village Sangha where I have only been once, but conversed with them online a few times (the guy who set the Sangha up is a good friend.)

I'm definitely not tied to any particular tradition and wish to obtain what I can from any one of them.

Anyway, thats my brief introduction. Don't let my name throw you, I am a non-Christian Christian. :)

Thanks.
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Greetings non-Christian Christian,

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.

:buddha2:

Metta,
Retro. :)
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Thank you. :namaste:
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Kim OHara
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Hi, Christian,
Another Aussie! :jumping:
Actually, there are a few of us here ... and a lot of people from other places too (see map at foot of Home page).
You will find quite a range of viewpoints, too, but most of us are pretty tolerant of differences.

:namaste:
Kim
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manas
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Gday Christian,

A 'Cooee' from Melbourne! :hello: Yes, it is raining here as I speak...my back yard has pond-sized puddles in it...

Don't worry about being non-sectarian. I suspect quite a few of us are here also, myself included. Sometimes I even border on heretical (ok just kidding about that one). :P

Hope you find Dhamma wheel fun and informative!

kind regards,
manas :anjali:
To the Buddha-refuge i go; to the Dhamma-refuge i go; to the Sangha-refuge i go.
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G'day and welcome :group: - from Brisbane.

with metta
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Welcome Christian!

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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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Greetings Christian and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I grew up in Sydney - I have fond memories of the place.
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Re: Hello from Sydney

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Thank you for the welcomes, everybody.

Hopefully I can offer something to the community in time, right now though, just lurking a little bit. :) :coffee:

I love just reading your welcomes, it makes me feel a lot better. I have a lot of anger at the moment and simply visiting this site lets me just let some go.

Thanks again!
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No worries.
Enjoy the lurking!
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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:hello:

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!

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Welcome to Dhamma Wheel Christian! :smile:
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Welcome to awesome discussions on Dhamma Wheel :)
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