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demann
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Hello Dharma Brothers and Sisters:

I am new to this forum and hope to learn a lot. I have been a Mahayana Buddhist until a year ago. I have studied Zen and Pure Land. We moved into this area and there is only one Temple in town which is a Theradava Temple. Once a week there are teachings in English and these teachings were just what I have been searching for. I have been a Buddhist since 2000. I am focusing my studies on karma and loving-kindness currently.

Metta,

Thomas
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Welcome. We have been expecting you.
>> 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.

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Welcome Thomas! Hope you enjoy Dhammawheel! :group:

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Welcome to DW Thomas!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
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Hi Thomas 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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Greetings Thomas,

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.

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Metta,
Retro. :)
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Thank you for your warm welcomes. I feel very comfortable here already.

Thomas
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Welcome Thomas!

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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.

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Welcome Thomas to the board.
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