Gabe,
Nice use of the mirror!
Santeri,
Nice mix of statues and ajahns!
Ngawang Dorlma,
Nice set-up! i like the little offering bowls. I remember those from the altars at Shambhala Mountain and I usually have some set-up at my altar too.
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Learn this from the waters:
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Thanks!TheDhamma wrote: Ngawang Dorlma,
Nice set-up! i like the little offering bowls. I remember those from the altars at Shambhala Mountain and I usually have some set-up at my altar too.
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Thank you!TheDhamma wrote: Santeri,
Nice mix of statues and ajahns!
The statue is indeed Phra Ajahn Somdet Toh. I got it from one of he's monasteries in Bangkok before I returned to Finland. There are a lot of stories about Somdet Toh, some of them I can't understand. Nevertheless he was a great monk and very popular among the thais. Some people say he was a bodhisatta, some even say he was a emanation of Metteya, but I can't understand what this means.
Legends of Somdet Toh
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Jechbi wrote:Can you post of a pix?TheDhamma wrote:I had one of those too (a Jewish grandmother) and she had an antique painting of a Buddha. After she passed, everyone in the family agreed to give that to me and it is one of my most prized possessions, being an image of the Buddha and a family heirloom all-in-one.
(Of the painting.)
(Or your grandma, either way.)
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Very nice, David!
“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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loud gush the streamlets,
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here is my shrine now
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Greetings and Blessings,
Here is my little shrine area. I took a closet area, removed the doors.
Wayne
Here is my little shrine area. I took a closet area, removed the doors.
Wayne
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Hi All
My shrine at home ... updated
With Metta
Bill
My shrine at home ... updated
With Metta
Bill
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Great photos, gentlemen!
“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,
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- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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I agree, excellent photos and shrines! Manapa, it looks like you have almost the entire Nikayas collection there.Ben wrote:Great photos, gentlemen!
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awesome! whered you get that baby buddha? i so want one of those
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the mountain may be heavy in and of itself, but if you're not trying to carry it it's not heavy to you- Ajaan Suwat
the mountain may be heavy in and of itself, but if you're not trying to carry it it's not heavy to you- Ajaan Suwat
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I got it from the Thai Temple in Lumbini, Nepal.jcsuperstar wrote:awesome! whered you get that baby buddha? i so want one of those
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Almost if it isn't their it is on my computerDavid N. Snyder wrote:I agree, excellent photos and shrines! Manapa, it looks like you have almost the entire Nikayas collection there.Ben wrote:Great photos, gentlemen!
Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill