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I might want one of these

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Ven Huifeng posted this on FB:
  • "Buddha (Sakya) @ $79 / lb.
    (Ascetic buddhas naturally the cheapest available...)"

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>> 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.

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Put me down for one as well, Tilt.
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Learn this from the waters:
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loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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Ven Huifeng posted:
  • 是,是台灣出名的「釋迦果」。Yes, Taiwan famous "Buddha fruit."
Which I think are these:

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http://www.eastcoast-nsa.gov.tw/Portal/ ... =202060101" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I still may want one.
>> 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
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Ah yes, custard apples.
“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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Ben wrote:Ah yes, custard apples.
I can grow 'em in my garden ... betcha you can't :tongue:

:smile:
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Kim O'Hara wrote:
Ben wrote:Ah yes, custard apples.
I can grow 'em in my garden ... betcha you can't :tongue:

:smile:
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And I bet you have bigger mosquitoes and nastier spiders, too.
>> 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
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tiltbillings wrote:Ven Huifeng posted:
  • 是,是台灣出名的「釋迦果」。Yes, Taiwan famous "Buddha fruit."
Which I think are these:

Image

http://www.eastcoast-nsa.gov.tw/Portal/ ... =202060101" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I still may want one.
Ah, yes. If you cut one open, the entire Samyutta Nikaya and associated commentaries are spelled out by the seeds.
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Sam Vara wrote:
tiltbillings wrote:Ven Huifeng posted:
  • 是,是台灣出名的「釋迦果」。Yes, Taiwan famous "Buddha fruit."
Which I think are these:

Image

http://www.eastcoast-nsa.gov.tw/Portal/ ... =202060101" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I still may want one.
Ah, yes. If you cut one open, the entire Samyutta Nikaya and associated commentaries are spelled out by the seeds.
..a couple of those and you'll attain enlightenment.
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I figured a couple of those would end up with enheavyment...
  • "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.

    "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.

- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]
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