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.
Hello from Sydney
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Re: Hello from Sydney
Greetings non-Christian Christian,
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.
Metta,
Retro.
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.
Metta,
Retro.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
Re: Hello from Sydney
Hi, Christian,
Another Aussie!
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.
Kim
Another Aussie!
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.
Kim
Re: Hello from Sydney
Gday Christian,
A 'Cooee' from Melbourne! 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).
Hope you find Dhamma wheel fun and informative!
kind regards,
manas
A 'Cooee' from Melbourne! 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).
Hope you find Dhamma wheel fun and informative!
kind regards,
manas
To the Buddha-refuge i go; to the Dhamma-refuge i go; to the Sangha-refuge i go.
Re: Hello from Sydney
G'day and welcome - from Brisbane.
with metta
Chris
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: Hello from Sydney
Welcome Christian!
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
- BB
Re: Hello from Sydney
Greetings Christian and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I grew up in Sydney - I have fond memories of the place.
I grew up in Sydney - I have fond memories of the place.
“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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Hello from Sydney
Thank you for the welcomes, everybody.
Hopefully I can offer something to the community in time, right now though, just lurking a little bit.
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!
Hopefully I can offer something to the community in time, right now though, just lurking a little bit.
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!
Re: Hello from Sydney
No worries.
Enjoy the lurking!
kind regards,
Ben
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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- 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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Re: Hello from Sydney
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
Re: Hello from Sydney
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel Christian!
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