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Gentle_heart
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A big Texas hello!

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Hello, everyone!

I am so glad I found this forum, I think it will be a huge help in my search for more information and insight into this path. I am not new to Buddhism, but I am new to accepting and admitting (finally) that this is what is right for me.

Thank you in advance for your patience with me and my questions!

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Howdy!
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I lived near Dallas for several years back in the 1980s.
UT-Dallas and UT-Arlington alumnus
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Welcome Gentle Heart! May you find true happiness and peace! :heart:
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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What is it with all the Texans joining recently?

Welcome though! May your stay be fruitful.
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.

Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.

His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta

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Welcome from San Antonio!

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Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.

- BB
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GReetings Gentle Heart and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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Gentle_heart
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Thank you kindly for the warm welcomes!

LonesomeYogurt: Let's hope there is an awakening in progress in Texas!

David N. Snyder: I live 5 minutes from the UTD campus. :smile: You would not believe the growth in this area. It's mind boggling!
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Welcome from a Texan in Thailand! Hope that your time spent here is fruitful and helps you follow your path. Best wishes!

Peace,
Dallas
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Welcome from a Native Texan who now lives in the People's Republic of California!

This forum is a great place with a great bunch of fellow "path wanderers". I hope you enjoy your stay here as much as I have.

Metta

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Welcome, I am glad I found it too :smile:
It it nice to talk with other Buddhist all around the world.
I also am a new member here, though I've studied a little of Buddhism over the years, only the Basics though about Siddhartha the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths and where Buddhism originated.
I am now learning meditation but I made a few mistakes as the meditation I was doing isn't the right one for Buddhism.
In Buddhism, there are certain specific meditations Buddhist practice which aren't just another random meditation, it is named in Pali and most of them are actually practiced by the Buddha himself.
I learned this from a fellow member here, Bakmoon, he can be a great help to you with anything you need to know, so can the moderators.

Good luck!

Namaste :namaste:
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." ~ Siddhārtha, Gautama Buddha
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