Hi.
Firstly, let me say I'm so pleased to have found this forum
Secondly, a little about me. I've been a practicing Buddhist since 1996 with my journey taking me to Dharamsala, India to spend 6 months teaching Tibetan refugees (including the monastic community) English while immersing myself in both the Indian and Tibetan spiritual culture. While not the Theravada tradition, my greatest reward was being present in the company of HHDL.
It's actually only since that part of my journey that I realised that my heart found a home in the Theravada tradition.
I am also an avid Vipassana practitioner and have a deep interest in the practical application of Buddhism in modern mental health programs particularly relating to the treatment of anxiety and depression.
I'm here because I want to further explore my desire to move into the next stage (which feels quite natural to me now) of Ordination.
Namaste and be happy
Greetings
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Greetings Tony and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
Like you, I am a dedicated Vipassana practitioner.
I wish you all the best for your ordination plans.
With metta!
Ben.
Like you, I am a dedicated Vipassana practitioner.
I wish you all the best for your ordination plans.
With metta!
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
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Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
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Welcome!
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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Hi, Tony. Welcome to DhammaWheel!I'm here because I want to further explore my desire to move into the next stage (which feels quite natural to me now) of Ordination.
You've come to the right place. At DhammaWheel there are several bhikkhus (and bhikkunis?) and a lot of detailed, well-considered advice for those who are considering ordination.
Rain soddens what is covered up,
It does not sodden what is open.
Therefore uncover what is covered
That the rain will not sodden it. Ud 5.5
It does not sodden what is open.
Therefore uncover what is covered
That the rain will not sodden it. Ud 5.5
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Welcome Tony
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 ---