Our last record attendance was:
Most users ever online was 99 on Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:40 am
Australian Eastern Summer Time
Using that as a template... We can try to break our record of 99 on Dhamma Wheel's birthday! Try to login, if you can at the following time (or before, just stay active, refresh the index page), based on your timezone:
Las Vegas (U.S.A. - Nevada) Thursday, 31 December 2009 at 3:40:00 PM
Madison (U.S.A. - Wisconsin) Thursday, 31 December 2009 at 5:40:00 PM
New York (U.S.A. - New York) Thursday, 31 December 2009 at 6:40:00 PM
London (U.K. - England) Thursday, 31 December at 11:40:00 PM
Berlin (Germany - Berlin) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 12:40:00 AM
Moscow (Russia) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 2:40:00 AM
Mumbai (India - Maharashtra) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 5:10:00 AM
Kolkata (India - West Bengal) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 5:10:00 AM
Bangkok (Thailand) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 6:40:00 AM
Beijing (China) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 7:40:00 AM
Perth (Australia - Western Australia) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 7:40:00 AM
Auckland (New Zealand) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 12:40:00 PM
SEE YOU THEN ! ! !
(thanks to Ben for calculating these times!)
Dhamma Wheel members online "bomb"
Re: Dhamma Wheel members online "bomb"
No problem David
Just to point out, those on the East Coast of Australia, the time for our 'bomb' is
Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart: 10.40 AM 1st Jan
Brisbane: 9.40 AM 1st Jan
My advice is for people to log on at least a few minutes early and perhaps say 'hello' here on this thread.
It'll be cool!
See you then!
metta
Ben
Just to point out, those on the East Coast of Australia, the time for our 'bomb' is
Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart: 10.40 AM 1st Jan
Brisbane: 9.40 AM 1st Jan
My advice is for people to log on at least a few minutes early and perhaps say 'hello' here on this thread.
It'll be cool!
See you then!
metta
Ben
“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
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- 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 Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Dhamma Wheel members online "bomb"
Fantastic idea, David and Ben!
Erm... I have a NYE party the night before but I'll do my best to wake up early enough just to log in.
Erm... I have a NYE party the night before but I'll do my best to wake up early enough just to log in.
With metta,
zavk
zavk
Re: Dhamma Wheel members online "bomb"
“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 Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- 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 Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Re: Dhamma Wheel members online "bomb"
I'll be at work . I'll try to get on but, alas, it's not likely. Hey, wouldn't it be good to get everyone into chat to celebrate! Chat is so rarely used here, maybe this 'bomb' will kickstart it
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I've set my mobile 'phone alarm to remind me! I'll be here!! (Do we need to bring a bottle?)
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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You think I have nothing better to do at 7:40AM on new year's day than to log on to DhammaWheel?David N. Snyder wrote: Perth (Australia - Western Australia) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 7:40:00 AM
...Well, you're right! Looking forward to it!
Four types of letting go:
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
Re: Dhamma Wheel members online "bomb"
Forgive me, I am a blonde.
I am always getting confused with those time zones:
I.e. the Berlin time (relevant for me) would be 00.40 hrs (in Germany) on New Year's Day, right?
All this AM - PM stuff is confusing for someone on a 24-hrs system
It would be good if you could confirm or correct my translation before I am wasting a good night's sleep for nothing
I am always getting confused with those time zones:
so, UK times I understand, this is 20 minutes to midnight on New Year's Eve in the UK.David N. Snyder wrote:
London (U.K. - England) Thursday, 31 December at 11:40:00 PM
Berlin (Germany - Berlin) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 12:40:00 AM
...
SEE YOU THEN ! ! !
(thanks to Ben for calculating these times!)
I.e. the Berlin time (relevant for me) would be 00.40 hrs (in Germany) on New Year's Day, right?
All this AM - PM stuff is confusing for someone on a 24-hrs system
It would be good if you could confirm or correct my translation before I am wasting a good night's sleep for nothing
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For times with PM next to them, just add 12, for example:Vardali wrote: All this AM - PM stuff is confusing for someone on a 24-hrs system
It would be good if you could confirm or correct my translation before I am wasting a good night's sleep for nothing
3:40 pm = 1540
6:40 pm = 1840
with the exception of:
12:00 pm = 1200
12:00 am = 0000 (or 2400) midnight
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I am at work. I will log in, but will probably be a "silent participant". Happy Birthday!
"As I am, so are others;
as others are, so am I."
Having thus identified self and others,
harm no one nor have them harmed.
Sutta Nipāta 3.710
as others are, so am I."
Having thus identified self and others,
harm no one nor have them harmed.
Sutta Nipāta 3.710
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Unfortunately I won't have access to a computer at that time. Sorry!
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I don't see any sense in this intention. In my opinion it is just another bigger, greater, higher,more, ... Samsara.
With best wishes
Only in a vertical view, straight down into the abyss of his own personal existence, is a man capable of apprehending the perilous insecurity of his situation; and only a man who does apprehend this is prepared to listen to the Buddha's Teaching.
Nanavira Thera - Notes on Dhamma
Only in a vertical view, straight down into the abyss of his own personal existence, is a man capable of apprehending the perilous insecurity of his situation; and only a man who does apprehend this is prepared to listen to the Buddha's Teaching.
Nanavira Thera - Notes on Dhamma
Re: Dhamma Wheel members online "bomb"
Hi Rhino,
With Metta,
Guy
While what you say is true in the short term, at least we are all going to be logging on to a website dedicated primarily to Dhamma discussion (and secondarily to fun and games). We could be all agreeing to log on at the same time to a website devoted to man vs bear hot dog eating contests, or worse! Therefore perhaps an act of indulging in the trivial will help bring us closer to the non-trivial.Rhino wrote:I don't see any sense in this intention. In my opinion it is just another bigger, greater, higher,more, ... Samsara.
With Metta,
Guy
Four types of letting go:
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
Re: Dhamma Wheel members online "bomb"
Will the web-server hosting dhamma-wheel be capable of dealing with, let's say 500 or more logins at once?
Thag 1.20. Ajita - I do not fear death; nor do I long for life. I’ll lay down this body, aware and mindful.