The noble 8-way

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villkorkarma
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The noble 8-way

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How important is right understanding right thougt right u know so on

I mean.. Have you read about S N Goenkas teacher U bakhin he wouldnt teach the vipassana to a person becourse he was testing other teqniques before that?
That isnt fairplay if you ask me?
and sn goenka said.. that ubakhin did reach the goal nibbanic peace.

And a teacher i had on a course said. IF you dont finish this 10 days course I wont let you go to another 10 day course in the future".
And I ask him and he said, "i feel like ecstacy".
So he have done progress but without right understandning from my wiew of point

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That's not true villkorkarma

You should read 'The Calm Mind" by John Coleman. Coleman was a student of U Ba Khin and was taught by him while he was trying out different spiritual approaches. In 'The Calm Mind" Coleman describes his spiritual path which began with, and ended with U Ba Khin.
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The Eightfold Path is the way to liberation, so very important.

just because we may think something is correct or right doesn't mean it is right according to the Dhamma.
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Manapa wrote:just because we may think something is correct or right doesn't mean it is right according to the Dhamma.
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Okey thanks, but I live in Sweden I looked at http://www.amazon.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; but i didnt find the book by john.
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It is actually called "The Quiet Mind" by John E. Coleman.

some buying options:
http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Vipassana-M ... 636&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.pariyatti.org/Bookstore/prod ... cfm?PC=548" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Thanks for the correction Moggalana. Its been about five or six years since reading it and shortly after I loaned it to someone who never returned it!
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“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:I loaned it to someone who never returned it!
Human nature, no?...fortunately not everyone's... :smile:
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Indeed Venerable!
I only hope the person who borrowed the book was inspired enough to start investigating the Dhamma.
metta

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“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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