Hi all!
I first started studying Buddhism through the Japanese Mahayana Buddhist traditions (Rissho Kosei-kai, Nichiren Shu, Jodo Shinshu, etc.) but I have found myself increasingly drawn to the teaching and practice style of Theravada Buddhism. I am still very grateful for the teachings and I think that a study of Theravada in addition will add much to my understanding and practice. I am geographically isolated from other Buddhists so I am hoping to learn from y'all (and websites like Access to Insight).
Thanks!
Dave
Looking More Closely at Theravada
Looking More Closely at Theravada
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You are welcome here.
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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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Re: Going from Mahayana to Theravada
Welcome Dave! Hope you find it fruitful here!
with metta
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Re: Going from Mahayana to Theravada
Hi Dave,
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
You might be interested in the pinned 'introductory resources' thread in our Discovering Theravada sub-forum.
And feel free to ask questions.
kind regards,
Ben
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
You might be interested in the pinned 'introductory resources' thread in our Discovering Theravada sub-forum.
And feel free to ask questions.
kind regards,
Ben
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Welcome Dave!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
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Re: Going from Mahayana to Theravada
Thanks for the welcome! I will review some of the suggested resources and will post more as I feel led and am able (I'm going through a bout of bilateral renal stones and am on pain medication while I wait for my surgery on Thursday morning so I am often tired, groggy, and in pain).
Kidney stones are not fun (especially when they are 2cm and over).
Kidney stones are not fun (especially when they are 2cm and over).
Re: Going from Mahayana to Theravada
Good luck with your surgery!
“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: Going from Mahayana to Theravada
Welcome Dave!
Re: Going from Mahayana to Theravada
Welcome Dave!
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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Re: Going from Mahayana to Theravada
Thanks for the welcome!