Your calling.

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gavenv
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Your calling.

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What is your calling?
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Tell us what your calling is first. :smile:

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It might help to define "calling." I have always associated the term with Christianity, particularly clergy and missionaries.
Buddhaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi.
Dhammaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi.
Saṇghaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi.


Not to do evil, to cultivate merit, to purify one's mind - this is the Teaching of the Buddhas. (Dhp 183)
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If my understanding of 'calling' is the same as yours, I would say that mine are being skilled in the dhamma, philosophy, the study of cultures, and music.

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"A virtuous monk, Kotthita my friend, should attend in an appropriate way to the five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self."

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London Calling?



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No one here to have a "calling".
Therein what are 'six (types of) disrespect'? One dwells without respect, without deference for the Teacher; one dwells without respect, without deference for the Teaching; one dwells without respect, without deference for the Order; one dwells without respect, without deference for the precepts; one dwells without respect, without deference for heedfulness; one dwells without respect, without deference for hospitality. These are six (types of) disrespect.
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mikenz66 wrote:London Calling?



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Mike
NO you big ding dong!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74aDOHL9S6g" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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Ben wrote:
mikenz66 wrote:London Calling?



:coffee:
Mike
NO you big ding dong!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74aDOHL9S6g" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Funny, you guys! :tongue:
Ben, I seem to remember you sending me a link to this song once.
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Its a beautiful song, Louise. I'm glad you like it.
“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

Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global ReliefUNHCR

e: [email protected]..
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