Hi Friends. I'm thinking of coming back to DW. In Thailand now. Doing my best.
If I come back, will I be welcome?
Re-indroduction.
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Welcome back Alan!
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Hi alan,
Welcome back!
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Hello alan,
Good to see you posting again.
with metta
Chris
Good to see you posting again.
with metta
Chris
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---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Only if you post some amazing photos of Thailand...alan wrote: If I come back, will I be welcome?
Welcome...
Mike
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Welcome Alan!
“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.
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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
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You weren't unwelcome here before.alan wrote:Hi Friends. I'm thinking of coming back to DW. In Thailand now. Doing my best.
If I come back, will I be welcome?
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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I did not know you were ever unwelcome!
Welcome back on board!
Welcome back on board!
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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Greetings alan,
Sitting on the bus last week I was thinking of you and your attempts to establish a regular metta bhavana practice... I hope that's going well!
Metta,
Retro.
Hell yeah.alan wrote:If I come back, will I be welcome?
Sitting on the bus last week I was thinking of you and your attempts to establish a regular metta bhavana practice... I hope that's going well!
Metta,
Retro.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
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Welcome back alan!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
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Are you welcome here? I don't remember any Alan effigies being burned here in the halls of Dhammawheel, so the answer in my mind is 'probably'. To be honest, I never knew why you left.
Anyway, I hope you have returned.
Anyway, I hope you have returned.
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Well he did post some obscenely beautiful sunsets which are not good for the restraint of the senses. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Dhamma is looking into these transgressions. Effigies and firewood are being prepared just in case!
Good to "see" you again, Heretic!
Good to "see" you again, Heretic!
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It is May Day, Beltane, afterall.Dan74 wrote:Effigies and firewood are being prepared just in case!
Good to "see" you again, Heretic!
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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There is a simple reason for why I felt unwelcome--the fact that I was often banned for saying what I thought!
But I'm more mellow now--the past several months have been very good to me. Maybe I'll even know when to let go, and when to move on.
But I'm more mellow now--the past several months have been very good to me. Maybe I'll even know when to let go, and when to move on.
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Hi Alanalan wrote:There is a simple reason for why I felt unwelcome--the fact that I was often banned for saying what I thought!
But I'm more mellow now--the past several months have been very good to me. Maybe I'll even know when to let go, and when to move on.
You are free to say whatever it is you think just as long as it falls within the bounds of the Terms of Service, and in saying that, welcome back and that you are always welcome here!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
- BB
- BB