Happy Uposatha Day! It's great to finally able to do something worthwhile on New Year's Eve! Metta.
Mike
Uposatha Observance Club
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yes great way to start the new year..
metta
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Happy Uposatha Day!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
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-Dhp. 183
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Observing uposatha days is one of my resolutions for the New Year. I've been going by the actual phases of the moon as seen from Japan, where I live.
It's nice having the day to reorient myself. And, I'm finding that it's actually a bonus that the days are completely at odds with the solar calendar, since it prevents them from feeling like a routine, like it might feel if they were simply every Saturday or Sunday.
I'd like to find a bhikkhu in my area to visit for dana.
It's nice having the day to reorient myself. And, I'm finding that it's actually a bonus that the days are completely at odds with the solar calendar, since it prevents them from feeling like a routine, like it might feel if they were simply every Saturday or Sunday.
I'd like to find a bhikkhu in my area to visit for dana.
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Yuuki,
Sounds like observing the uposatha is going to be a fruitful practice for you. All the best to you! Be well!
Sounds like observing the uposatha is going to be a fruitful practice for you. All the best to you! Be well!
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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Happy Uposatha Everyone! Metta!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
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-Dhp. 183
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Happy uposatha everyone! Here are this year's dates:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... a2010.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... a2010.html
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
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Interesting that this year there is no different between the two Thai sects. This list agrees with my Thai calendar which my Wat uses (with Mahanikaya dates). Perhaps they have come to some sort of agreement... Of course, there may well be differences from other countries...Khalil Bodhi wrote: Here are this year's dates:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... a2010.html
Metta
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Mike,
Cool, that means that there'll be even more of us observing on every uposatha day. Be well!
Cool, that means that there'll be even more of us observing on every uposatha day. Be well!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
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Happy uposatha everyone!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
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Greetings,
Gosh darn it... I forgot all about it today.
Even still - it was quite a mindful day, and I got to read some more of my expanded edition of the Dhammapada, complete with the stories.
Metta,
Retro.
Gosh darn it... I forgot all about it today.
Even still - it was quite a mindful day, and I got to read some more of my expanded edition of the Dhammapada, complete with the stories.
Metta,
Retro.
"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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Retro,
You may be in luck. If you go by the days that Samahita Bhikkhu emailed me last week then tomorrow is really the uposatha! I was considering it but then I realized that it's Valentine's Day here in the US tomorrow so I decided that to forget about it and live to observe another day. Anyway, be well and best wishes. Metta.
You may be in luck. If you go by the days that Samahita Bhikkhu emailed me last week then tomorrow is really the uposatha! I was considering it but then I realized that it's Valentine's Day here in the US tomorrow so I decided that to forget about it and live to observe another day. Anyway, be well and best wishes. Metta.
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To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
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Hi Khalil and Retro
Happy observance day. Sounds like an appropriate antidote to valentine's day insanity.
metta
Ben
Happy observance day. Sounds like an appropriate antidote to valentine's day insanity.
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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
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or unhappy valentines day stupidity!Ben wrote:Hi Khalil and Retro
Happy observance day. Sounds like an appropriate antidote to valentine's day insanity.
metta
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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 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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Happy uposatha day everyone!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com