What do you give to a beginner online?

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Mudita1
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Re: What do you give to a beginner online?

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1. Middle Discourses 107, With Moggallāna the Accountant
2. Ud 5.3: Kuṭṭhi Sutta, Posted by culaavuso 2014

Link:
1. https://suttacentral.net/mn107/en/sujat ... ript=latin
2. viewtopic.php?f=13&t=20379&p=654729#p654729

Summary:
Avoid evil, do good, purify the mind, which expands into 9 steps:
1. Avoid Evil
2. Do Good
3. Heaven
4. Danger, Folly and Depravity of Sensual Pleasures
5. Renunciation
6. The 1st NT Dukkha
7. The 2nd NT Cause
8. The 3rd NT Cessation
9. The 4th NT Path...N8FP
JohnSo
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Re: What do you give to a beginner online?

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Hi Padmist,

'Kamma is Volition' by Sayadaw U Silananda would great before starting with the others.
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Eko Care
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“The ancient commentary thereof
was sang By the First council,
Mahakassapa Their leader, and later again by seers,
Mahinda bought it to the peerless isle, Ceylon”
..........
"—the commentary, I say, upon this Scripture
was at the first Council rehearsed
by five hundred holy elders
and in later times rehearsed again and yet again."
...........
What if a beginner gets used to Fill in the blanks of this kind of verses?
jc1990
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If someone ask you how to get started in Buddhism. I would suggest you to tell them to start keeping sila.

I wrote a post here - viewtopic.php?t=42824

Sila makes you virtuous, a good human being and god and devas helps those who have sila. If you have alot of knowledge but no sila, you will still suffer and have wrong views, what is knowledge anyway, knowledge tells us what is right and wrong, so basically sila IS knowledge, it tells us killing is wrong etc..

Start with sila and everything will be ok.

Good luck.
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I advice beginner to start with keeping precepts., sila 8 if you want to practice meditation easier.

You can read about the teachings from accesstoinsight. You can also learn from various bhikkus, luang por cha is an arahant I believe so I also listen to his teachings.
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Padmist wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:22 am If someone online asks "Where do I get started with Buddhism?" or "Where do I learn more about Buddhism?" or "What books/websites/videos/podcasts do you recommend to get started with Buddhism" what do you give?

Please share. Thanks. :juggling:
I think I would refer them to http://www.buddhanet.net/index.html .
May all beings, in or out of the womb, be well, happy and peaceful.
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start with keeping sila 5.
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or if you want to progress in dhamma, then sila 8 and start meditating, do anapanasati. there is no point to know much but don't practice, you just need to know 4 noble truth, noble 8 fold path, triple gem, keeping sila 8 and practicing anapanasati, and read some suttas to know some more but not neccessary, If you can, you just go and stay in a monastery with teacher, you won't get lost like how I have been.

good luck.
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Padmist wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:22 am If someone online asks "Where do I get started with Buddhism?" or "Where do I learn more about Buddhism?" or "What books/websites/videos/podcasts do you recommend to get started with Buddhism" what do you give?

Please share. Thanks. :juggling:
Ask them what the want. Honestly if any of my friends ask, well I ask them what do you want to know?

And that usually helps narrow down the material.

There is a lot of material out there brother, your gonna need their help to figure that out.
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