Hello, everyone!
I am so glad I found this forum, I think it will be a huge help in my search for more information and insight into this path. I am not new to Buddhism, but I am new to accepting and admitting (finally) that this is what is right for me.
Thank you in advance for your patience with me and my questions!
Gentle_heart
A big Texas hello!
- DNS
- Site Admin
- Posts: 17194
- Joined: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:15 am
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos de América
- Contact:
Re: A big Texas hello!
Howdy!
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I lived near Dallas for several years back in the 1980s.
UT-Dallas and UT-Arlington alumnus
- Khalil Bodhi
- Posts: 2250
- Joined: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:32 pm
- Location: NYC
- Contact:
Re: A big Texas hello!
Welcome Gentle Heart! May you find true happiness and peace!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
- LonesomeYogurt
- Posts: 900
- Joined: Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:24 pm
- Location: America
Re: A big Texas hello!
What is it with all the Texans joining recently?
Welcome though! May your stay be fruitful.
Welcome though! May your stay be fruitful.
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
Re: A big Texas hello!
Welcome from San Antonio!
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: A big Texas hello!
GReetings Gentle Heart 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.
- 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]..
- Gentle_heart
- Posts: 5
- Joined: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:54 pm
- Location: Plano, TX
Re: A big Texas hello!
Thank you kindly for the warm welcomes!
LonesomeYogurt: Let's hope there is an awakening in progress in Texas!
David N. Snyder: I live 5 minutes from the UTD campus. You would not believe the growth in this area. It's mind boggling!
LonesomeYogurt: Let's hope there is an awakening in progress in Texas!
David N. Snyder: I live 5 minutes from the UTD campus. You would not believe the growth in this area. It's mind boggling!
Re: A big Texas hello!
Welcome from a Texan in Thailand! Hope that your time spent here is fruitful and helps you follow your path. Best wishes!
Peace,
Dallas
Peace,
Dallas
Visit leafSpirit for helpful articles on meditation.
- Sambojjhanga
- Posts: 109
- Joined: Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:51 pm
- Location: San Diego, California, USA
Re: A big Texas hello!
Welcome from a Native Texan who now lives in the People's Republic of California!
This forum is a great place with a great bunch of fellow "path wanderers". I hope you enjoy your stay here as much as I have.
Metta
This forum is a great place with a great bunch of fellow "path wanderers". I hope you enjoy your stay here as much as I have.
Metta
Sabba rasam dhammaraso jinati
The flavor of the dhamma exceeds all other flavors
The flavor of the dhamma exceeds all other flavors
- Still Searching
- Posts: 129
- Joined: Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:28 pm
- Location: United Kingdom
- Contact:
Re: A big Texas hello!
Welcome, I am glad I found it too
It it nice to talk with other Buddhist all around the world.
I also am a new member here, though I've studied a little of Buddhism over the years, only the Basics though about Siddhartha the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths and where Buddhism originated.
I am now learning meditation but I made a few mistakes as the meditation I was doing isn't the right one for Buddhism.
In Buddhism, there are certain specific meditations Buddhist practice which aren't just another random meditation, it is named in Pali and most of them are actually practiced by the Buddha himself.
I learned this from a fellow member here, Bakmoon, he can be a great help to you with anything you need to know, so can the moderators.
Good luck!
Namaste
It it nice to talk with other Buddhist all around the world.
I also am a new member here, though I've studied a little of Buddhism over the years, only the Basics though about Siddhartha the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths and where Buddhism originated.
I am now learning meditation but I made a few mistakes as the meditation I was doing isn't the right one for Buddhism.
In Buddhism, there are certain specific meditations Buddhist practice which aren't just another random meditation, it is named in Pali and most of them are actually practiced by the Buddha himself.
I learned this from a fellow member here, Bakmoon, he can be a great help to you with anything you need to know, so can the moderators.
Good luck!
Namaste
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." ~ Siddhārtha, Gautama Buddha