Hello everyone,
My name is Jerrod. I've been practicing in the Theravada tradition for nearly 10 years and am formerly a moderator for another international Theravada forum. It hadn't really occurred to me to look into other forums until very recently. I really enjoy talking about the dhamma, learning and helping others. I am excited to meet some new fellow travelers of the middle path and learn something new. I hope to rejuvenate my practice which has fallen a bit by the wayside. I keep 5 precepts but have gotten away from a regular meditation practice which I will be reimplementing soon as I know for certain what a difference it makes for me. Really looking forward to interacting here.
Hello from California
- Khalil Bodhi
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Welcome to DW Jerrod! I thought I recognized your name.
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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My Practice Blog:
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-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
- Jerrod Lopes
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Re: Hello from California
Hi Khalil. I recall your avatar. Nice to see you. I se eyou'r win NYC? I went to school there and lived over near Bloomfield, NJ. Really miss it back there. Be well my friend and thanks for the reply!
Re: Hello from California
Hi Jerrod and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
As a matter of interest, which other discussion board were you a moderator at?
kind regards,
Ben
As a matter of interest, which other discussion board were you a moderator at?
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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- 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 California
Hello Jerrod,
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
(I'm a member of that 'other' board also. Enjoy reading you therre )
with metta
Chris
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
(I'm a member of that 'other' board also. Enjoy reading you therre )
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 ---
- Jerrod Lopes
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Re: Hello from California
Hi Ben, and thanks for the welcome. To answer your question I was a mod at the Dhammaloka.org site which is run by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. A truly wonderful and inspiring group of lay people and monastics. Alas, all is transient, so here I am.
Chris, I thank you as well for the welcome and you compliment. I only hope you haven't read lately, LOL. I hope I'll get the chance to get to know you here. I'll likely still be on the BSWA site but not contributing much there for a while. I'm just going to sit back and watch for a while and keep in touch with the monastics as needs be.
Looking forward to learning here and refreshing my online dhamma experience. Thanks again gentlemen.
Chris, I thank you as well for the welcome and you compliment. I only hope you haven't read lately, LOL. I hope I'll get the chance to get to know you here. I'll likely still be on the BSWA site but not contributing much there for a while. I'm just going to sit back and watch for a while and keep in touch with the monastics as needs be.
Looking forward to learning here and refreshing my online dhamma experience. Thanks again gentlemen.
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Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
Re: Hello from California
Welcome Jerrod!
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 California
Recognize your name from Dhammaloka, welcome to Dhammawheel. Where in Cali are you?
"It's easy for us to connect with what's wrong with us... and not so easy to feel into, or to allow us, to connect with what's right and what's good in us."
Re: Hello from California
Welcome to Dhammawheel, Jerrod! I look forward to seeing you around.
The non-doing of any evil,
The performance of what's skillful,
The cleansing of one's own mind:
This is the Buddhas' teaching.
The performance of what's skillful,
The cleansing of one's own mind:
This is the Buddhas' teaching.
- Jerrod Lopes
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Re: Hello from California
Hey Marc,
I'm in the Stockton area. Where are you at? Thanks for the welcome.
I'm in the Stockton area. Where are you at? Thanks for the welcome.
- Jerrod Lopes
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Re: Hello from California
Thanks Bakmoon. I hope I'll learn something form you here. Thanks for the welcome.
Re: Hello from California
Jerrod Lopes wrote:Hey Marc,
I'm in the Stockton area. Where are you at? Thanks for the welcome.
I live in Sacramento, also oddly enough grew up in NJ
"It's easy for us to connect with what's wrong with us... and not so easy to feel into, or to allow us, to connect with what's right and what's good in us."
- Jerrod Lopes
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Re: Hello from California
Wow. This is quite interesting. I lived in Montclair, next to Bloomfield/Newark/West Orange... What about you? Maybe one of these days we'll cross paths in person.marc108 wrote:Jerrod Lopes wrote:Hey Marc,
I live in Sacramento, also oddly enough grew up in NJ
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i lived in Hillsborough, near princeton. about 45 mins from Montclair shoot me a PM anytimeJerrod Lopes wrote: Wow. This is quite interesting. I lived in Montclair, next to Bloomfield/Newark/West Orange... What about you? Maybe one of these days we'll cross paths in person.
"It's easy for us to connect with what's wrong with us... and not so easy to feel into, or to allow us, to connect with what's right and what's good in us."