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Hello from the Great White North!

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Hello DhammaWheel!

My name is Jake, I am currently 19 years old and living in Perth, Ontario. I came across Buddhism a number of years ago and while the teachings didn't instantly resonate with me, over time they have come to be more and more important to me. I haven't actually attended a monastery yet even though there is a Thai Forest sangha very close to me. But I plan to! :) I've joined this forum to further my knowledge of the Dhamma, and hopefully participate in some good discussion!

- Jake Bornheimer
"O Sariputra! Form does not differ from the void, and the void does not differ from the form. Form is the void, and the void is form."

my blog | my music | my poetry | email me!

Interested primarily in Sōtō Zen, but willing to learn anything from all you great Theravādin chaps!
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Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!

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Waving with one hand and writing poem with the other, and thinks its nice to see you :hello:

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If you didn't care
What happened to me
And I didn't care for you

We would zig-zag our way
Through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain

Wondering which of the
Buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing
- Roger Waters
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Greetings Jake 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.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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Welcome, Jake!! :group:

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 ---
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Thank you very much everybody for your warm welcome! :)
"O Sariputra! Form does not differ from the void, and the void does not differ from the form. Form is the void, and the void is form."

my blog | my music | my poetry | email me!

Interested primarily in Sōtō Zen, but willing to learn anything from all you great Theravādin chaps!
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