Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Dear Ven. Appicchato,
May you have a wonderful birthday, and may the coming year be happy and productive.
May you always progress on the Path and have happiness and its causes.
metta and respect,
Chris
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---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 ---
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Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Happy Birthday, Ven. App.
Vision is Mind
Mind is Empty
Emptiness is Clear Light
Clear Light is Union
Union is Great Bliss
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Mind is Empty
Emptiness is Clear Light
Clear Light is Union
Union is Great Bliss
- Dawa Gyaltsen
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Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Happy birthday Bhante!
may you achievewhat is hard to achieve!
may you achievewhat is hard to achieve!
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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
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
Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Thank you for all that you have given to us Bhante
Happy Birthday
with metta
Jack
Happy Birthday
with metta
Jack
"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
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'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
Path Press - Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli's Dhamma talks
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Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Happy birthday Appicchato
I would send a cake in the post but by the time it got to you it would more likely be 'splatto' than gateaux ..
I would send a cake in the post but by the time it got to you it would more likely be 'splatto' than gateaux ..
Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Happy Birthday dear Venerable!
Thamls also for your friendship and support!
metta
Ben
Thamls also for your friendship and support!
metta
Ben
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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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- 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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Greetings bhante,
I hope you have a wonderful impermanence day.
Thank you for sharing your kindness and your wisdom.
Metta,
Paul.
I hope you have a wonderful impermanence day.
Thank you for sharing your kindness and your wisdom.
Metta,
Paul.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BHANTE ! ! !
Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Happy Birthday, Bhante!
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Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Happy birthday Appicchat.
and thanks
Gabe
and thanks
Gabe
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Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
What everybody else said, happy birthday and all the best to 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.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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
Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
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Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth. -The Dhammapada
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Re: Happy Birthday Ven. Appicchato
Happy Birthday, Bhante!
"Once you understand anatta, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy."
- Ajahn Chah
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Happy Birthday, Ven Appicchato !
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Happy Birthday, Ven Appicchato !
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