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dharmacorps wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:33 pm What difference does it make? You're dead.

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Staying silent might agitate such a person. Actually, often, but not always, the above does not occur. Often, staying silent gives the impression to the other person you are listening & supporting. Often the other person merely wants someone to listen to them rather than wants someone to give them ...

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I recommend reading Ajahn Sumedho's 5 volume Anthology, which is available on Amaravati Monastery website.

https://www.amaravati.org/dhamma-books/ ... mple-step/

Videos of his talks can also be found there and also on YouTube and the Buddhism Now website.

Welcome, Frenchy




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Meeting in real life with people who have a serious mental illness can be quite disturbing for most people. I wonder whether that same effect occurs online, where they are represented merely by our interpretations of pixels. It can be disturbing if people get insulting or threatening in their onlin...

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suriyopama wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:45 am Thank you for the information

May he have a pleasant trip and a good retirement at Amaravati

SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:11 pm

Aloka wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:57 pm

SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:09 pm You should take a break from this forum.

Stero, hunni, maybe you should too ?

I am in a state of continuous break so I don't need that kind of protection.

Lol, burgers and coke ?

SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:09 pm You should take a break from this forum.

Stero, hunni, maybe you should too ?

gavesako wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:41 pm Yes, it has been announced that Ajahn Sumedho is planning to move permanently back to Amaravati, UK.

Thank you for sharing, that's really good news!

Welcome, Padmist.

To Vincent.. and your point in picking through a little book I referenced which has been helpful to many people - is what? Plus having been to a lot of Ajahn Amaro's talks at Amaravati Monastery, I'm pretty sure he has a lot more knowledge of meditation and the suttas than you think you have yoursel...

There are basic meditation instructions in the little book "Finding the Missing Peace– a Primer of Buddhist Meditation " by Ajahn Amaro:

https://www.amaravati.org/dhamma-books/ ... editation/



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Let's strive for liberation, friends!! You're still likely to become old, wrinkled, and probably disabled, (and maybe obese too) even if you do become "liberated"! . Perhaps old age, sickness and death motivate towards the path. Many people chose many different paths unless you are a Buddhist with ...

rhinoceroshorn wrote: Let's strive for liberation, friends!!

You're still likely to become old, wrinkled, and probably disabled, (and maybe obese too) even if you do become "liberated"!

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