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cookiemonster
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Hello everyone!

I just signed up to Dhammawheel, and I'm excited to learn from all of you!

Religiously, I practice a form of Messianic Judaism, but I've been learning about Theravada Buddhism and reading selections from the Nikayas lately, so I thought I'd join :)

Thank you.
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Welcome cookiemonster! :group:

With metta,
Chris
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---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
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Thank you, friend Chris! :)
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Welcome



>> 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.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Welcome. Hopefully, you will find many good things here. :namaste:

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Thank you, tiltbillings & Kevin! Yes, I am sure I will find more than cookies here, and developing my patience will be worth it ;) :lol:
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Greetings 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

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Welcome!
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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Thank you Ben & Khalil Bodhi! :hello:
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Shalom,

Nice username. I was a cookie monster myself for years and made chocolate chip cookies with my kids every Friday when they were young. Now me have more self-control.

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
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Thank you for your welcome, David!

As much as I love cookies, I have to stay away from most, because of a recently discovered gluten intolerance ... I see it as a chance to develop more self control :tongue:
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Welcome cookiemonster!

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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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Thank you, bodom :)
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Greetings,

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.

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Metta,
Retro. :)
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Thank you, retrofuturist! :jumping:
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