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by Kokoro
Tue May 15, 2012 2:07 am
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: your home altar/shrine
Replies: 198
Views: 188661

Re: your home altar/shrine

Where do you guys get your Buddha statues (I live in UK)? I got my Rupa at a flea market one weekend a couple years ago. I live in an area that is 99.9% Christian so I was very surprised to see this Rupa there, and for such a good price. You never know when or where you may find a Rupa for yourself...
by Kokoro
Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:50 pm
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: your home altar/shrine
Replies: 198
Views: 188661

Re: your home altar/shrine

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by Kokoro
Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:41 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Newbie from Canada!
Replies: 12
Views: 3427

Re: Newbie from Canada!

Hello and welcome! I'm about an hour from you so it's cool to see someone near my area on here! This is a great place to get to know some awesome Buddhists and learn a lot. Feel free to ask questions and I hope this begins a great chapter in your life.

With great respect, and metta,

Jay
by Kokoro
Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:06 pm
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Replies: 89
Views: 44029

Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers

For me it would be:

Ajahn Brahmavamso
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Punnadhammo
Ajahn Brahmali
Bhikkhu Samahita
by Kokoro
Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:43 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Word Association Game
Replies: 11976
Views: 1541374

Re: Word Association Game

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by Kokoro
Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:54 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Dealing with grief
Replies: 11
Views: 2829

Re: Dealing with grief

Thank you to everyone who has posted, sent kind messages, or sent a kind thought or metta in my direction. I am very grateful to all of you. Jeff, yes I am familiar with Ajahn Punnadhammo! As a matter of fact, he was the first Theravada Bhikkhu I began learning from, mainly by following his blog. It...
by Kokoro
Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:50 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Dealing with grief
Replies: 11
Views: 2829

Re: Dealing with grief

Thank-you. I will take your advice on dana. It would also serve as a tribute to my girlfriend, because she was an advocate of helping others and giving. I think the hardest part for me is feeling like I'm letting her down, because I know she would not want me to hurt so much. She was an eternal opti...
by Kokoro
Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:57 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Dealing with grief
Replies: 11
Views: 2829

Re: Dealing with grief

Thank-you. I absolutely will see about talking to a counsellor. As far as a teacher is concerned, I can't seem to find any where I live, but I have already been provided with quite a few names of teachers who interact with students online from some very kind people. Thank-you everyone who sent me a ...
by Kokoro
Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:28 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Dealing with grief
Replies: 11
Views: 2829

Dealing with grief

Hello. I may but posting this in the wrong forum but I don't know where else to go, and I'd like to have feedback from other Buddhists rather than Christians (nothing against Christians, just I'm not one). Last month, on the 28th of December, my girlfriend died. She was only 21 at the time and her d...
by Kokoro
Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:03 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
Replies: 2175
Views: 525320

Re: What music are you listening to right now?

Right now I'm listening to a song called Tabidachi no Uta by a Japanese pop/rock band called Mr.Children. In English it means "A Song for Setting Off."
by Kokoro
Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:15 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Formally going for refuge
Replies: 4
Views: 1572

Re: Formally going for refuge

Thank you Ben and Nanadhaja for your advice. I will indeed contact the Centre to find out when there are some programs or talks going on.

Metta to you both and all who visit this forum.

:anjali:
by Kokoro
Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:16 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Formally going for refuge
Replies: 4
Views: 1572

Formally going for refuge

Hello to all, I have been studying and following the Buddha Dhamma since last December, and all is going well in that regard. Recently I got a new vehicle; one much better suited for long-distance traveling in comparison to my last one, and today I remembered there is a Dhamma Centre about an hour's...
by Kokoro
Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:37 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: A. L. De Silva's "Beyond Belief"
Replies: 34
Views: 8023

Re: A. L. De Silva's "Beyond Belief"

I consider De Silva's book to be not so much for providing one with ammo in case a group of fundamentalist Christians appear and push their religion, but rather to provide comfort and assurance to Buddhists who perhaps may have been Christian and are now having some doubt, or perhaps for Christians ...
by Kokoro
Mon May 31, 2010 8:32 pm
Forum: Suggestion box
Topic: locking topics?
Replies: 6
Views: 2798

Re: locking topics?

Kokoro I don't think that's such a good idea. At Dhamma Wheel we encourage our members to self moderate and to be mindful that every member is responsible for their right speech. I'm heartened when members, after realizing they've said something they later regret, go back and remove the comments th...
by Kokoro
Mon May 31, 2010 10:19 am
Forum: Suggestion box
Topic: locking topics?
Replies: 6
Views: 2798

Re: locking topics?

I know this is somewhat off topic but I would like to make a small suggestion if possible. My suggestion is that you do not delete your own posts, however you may feel about them. The reason I say this is twofold: first, once you say something, it is done and even if you remove it later the people w...