Hi, all!I have been tinkering with Buddhism on and off since I was in college (back before the Flood, but never mind) and finally got serious about it some ten years ago. I was very confused and floundering until I found What the Buddha Taught and decided that the Theravadan school made the most sense to me. I have been studying that for a couple of years now but still floundering around on my own as all that's available in my area IRL is Tibetan, non-denominational/Western, or mindfulness/insight meditation completely divorced from actual Buddhism. That's all well and good, but Theravada is what I want to study right now, have a solid foundation before I venture into other branches. There's a temple 3 hours from my house round trip, but most of their activities/services are in Sinhalese. So I have been feeling the lack of a community for some time, finally decided (doh!) to see if I could find an on-line community, and was delighted to find you all in about the first five minutes!
This will be me for the next forty-eleven months:
