Dear Dhamma friends, There is a somewhat philosophical question that keeps arising, to which I found no satisfactory answer yet. Buddha’s words quoted in the subject line (painful to be born again and again) seem to indicate that there is an awareness of the suffering experienced in other lifetimes ...

Hi all, Born in a more inward-oriented Eastern Orthodox Christian culture, throughout my life I witnessed a number of phenomena that are usually thought of as miracles in Christianity. These covered a whole range, from people praying for help to heal and actually healing soon afterward to other more...

Thanks for posting the links, Mihai!
Glad to hear there are some dhamma practitioners back in the country of my youth!

Hi everyone, just joined the forum after contemplating the idea for a while. Started on the Buddhist path about 25 years ago with a class by S. N. Goenka, but my practice was slow until life gave me a wake-up call through the loss of my wife. For the last nine years that passed since that event I ma...