Thanks for the warm welcomes :D and thank you floating_abu for those recommended reading on meditation. I'm curious about the very beginning of Theravada Buddhism and would like to read more about it. I've only read some texts on accesstoinsight.org about what Theravada Buddhism is and I've read abo...

Hi, I'm Saravya. (It's actually my last name) from sunny Southern California. I'm a new member here (obviously. hehe) and happy to see that it's a small group. :D I came from e-Sanga, I joined there last month, but it's such a large group that it's sort of intimidating for me to join in on conversat...