Hi everyone,
I've just finished my morning meditation and I';m enjoying the pre-dawn quiet with a cup of tea.
Its a beautiful time of day.
In a few minutes, everyone will be up and it'll be the usual morning catastrophe until everyone is off to work and school.
Manapa - I'll check that video out a little later, perhaps when Quinn is up and about. If its anything like the other one, it'll definitely make his day (and mine)!
Thank you all for your kind wishes.
Much metta to you all!
Ben
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN O'LOUGHLIN ! !
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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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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN O'LOUGHLIN ! !
Dear Ben,
Have a good one, my friend! Remember it is YOUR Day!
with metta
Chris
Have a good one, my friend! Remember it is YOUR Day!
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 ---
Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN O'LOUGHLIN ! !
Happy Birthday Ben!
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Happy birthday Ben!
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Happy birthday, Ben!
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN O'LOUGHLIN ! !
Greetings Ben,
Happy birthday, and thanks as always for your efforts here.
Metta,
Retro.
Happy birthday, and thanks as always for your efforts here.
Metta,
Retro.
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Happy birthday Ben.
Keep your dhamma-eye on the target!
J
Keep your dhamma-eye on the target!
J
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Happy Birthday, dear Ben!
Your compassion and insight are major pillars of this forum! May you find liberation in this very life!!
Your compassion and insight are major pillars of this forum! May you find liberation in this very life!!
"Take rest, take rest."-S.N.Goenka
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Sorry if I'm a bit late to the party Ben, but Happy Birthday. You're a real asset to this place and to Buddhism in general.
Hope you have a good one.
metta
Jack
Hope you have a good one.
metta
Jack
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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
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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
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***Happy Birthday, Ben!***
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Sīlaṃ balaṃ appaṭimaṃ.
Sīlaṃ āvudhamuttamaṃ.
Sīlamābharaṇaṃ seṭṭhaṃ.
Sīlaṃ kavacamabbhutaṃ.
Virtue is a matchless power.
Virtue is the greatest weapon.
Virtue is the best adornment.
Virtue is a wonderful armor.
Theragatha 614
Sabbapāpassa akaraṇaṃ,
kusalassa upasampadā,
Sacittapariyodapanaṃ,
etaṃ buddhāna sāsanaṃ.
Refraining from all wrong-doing,
Undertaking the good,
Purifying the mind,
This is the teaching of the buddhas.
Dhammapada v. 183/14.5
Sīlaṃ āvudhamuttamaṃ.
Sīlamābharaṇaṃ seṭṭhaṃ.
Sīlaṃ kavacamabbhutaṃ.
Virtue is a matchless power.
Virtue is the greatest weapon.
Virtue is the best adornment.
Virtue is a wonderful armor.
Theragatha 614
Sabbapāpassa akaraṇaṃ,
kusalassa upasampadā,
Sacittapariyodapanaṃ,
etaṃ buddhāna sāsanaṃ.
Refraining from all wrong-doing,
Undertaking the good,
Purifying the mind,
This is the teaching of the buddhas.
Dhammapada v. 183/14.5
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HAPPPPPPPPPPPY BIRRRRRRTHHHHHHH DAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
QUINN
QUINN
May the power of the Buddha be with you!!!
Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN O'LOUGHLIN ! !
Happy Birthday Ben!
I am very grateful for all the help and support you have given me answering my beginnerish questions in the short time I have been visiting DhammaWheel. May you live a long time so that you can help out lots of new people finding their legs in the Dhamma.
I am very grateful for all the help and support you have given me answering my beginnerish questions in the short time I have been visiting DhammaWheel. May you live a long time so that you can help out lots of new people finding their legs in the Dhamma.
Four types of letting go:
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
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Happy birthday Ben....
The going for refuge is the door of entrance to the teachings of the Buddha.
Bhikku Bodhi.
Bhikku Bodhi.