(I tasked myself with telling the whole story of my presence in one sentence, greeting and all, and I think it went pretty well!)
David M.
David M.
Hail well met; my name is David, and I hope to enmesh myself in the community here for the next few months while I finish up my masters degree prior to seeking ordination at Santi Forest Monastery this November.
(I tasked myself with telling the whole story of my presence in one sentence, greeting and all, and I think it went pretty well!)
(I tasked myself with telling the whole story of my presence in one sentence, greeting and all, and I think it went pretty well!)
Re: David M.
Hi David M(ead?)
Hope you find some good discussions here
metta
Jack
Hope you find some good discussions here
metta
Jack
"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
Path Press - Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli's Dhamma talks
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
Path Press - Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli's Dhamma talks
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Fixed.BlackBird wrote:Hi David M(ead!)
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(With a mixture of sympathetic joy and jealousy, I wish you...)
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I was actually just reading the ordination poilicies at SFM earlier this week... very sensible they are, too.
Metta,
Retro.
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
I was actually just reading the ordination poilicies at SFM earlier this week... very sensible they are, too.
Metta,
Retro.
"The uprooting of identity is seen by the noble ones as pleasurable; but this contradicts what the whole world sees." (Snp 3.12)
"It is natural that one who knows and sees things as they really are is disenchanted and dispassionate." (AN 10.2)
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” (Flannery O'Connor)
"It is natural that one who knows and sees things as they really are is disenchanted and dispassionate." (AN 10.2)
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” (Flannery O'Connor)
Re: David M.
Hi David
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
metta
Ben
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
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: ben.dhammawheel@gmail.com..
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Welcome David!
The heart of the path is so simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are. That is all I do in my own practice.
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques to develop samadhi and many kinds of vipassana. But it all comes back to this-just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle.
- Ajahn Chah
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques to develop samadhi and many kinds of vipassana. But it all comes back to this-just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle.
- Ajahn Chah
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Sobeh wrote: while I finish up my masters degree prior to seeking ordination at Santi Forest Monastery this November.
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!
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Welcome!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
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-Dhp. 183
Uposatha Observance Club:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=1 ... 279&v=info
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
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And so it is! Seven days until I depart... and what a fascinating group of folk with whom to explore the Dhamma! Perhaps I'll find occasion to take the pulse of Dhamma Wheel again; my understanding has been irrevocably aggrandized over these last months, so thank you, all, for that.
~peace~
~peace~
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All the best David with your ordination plans!
May it bring you much merit and happiness.
kind regards
Ben
May it bring you much merit and happiness.
kind regards
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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: ben.dhammawheel@gmail.com..
- 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: ben.dhammawheel@gmail.com..
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Greetings Sobeh,
Congratulations on your upcoming ordination and I look forward to meeting you one day, and hopefully offering alms or requisites.
Metta,
Retro.
Congratulations on your upcoming ordination and I look forward to meeting you one day, and hopefully offering alms or requisites.
Metta,
Retro.
"The uprooting of identity is seen by the noble ones as pleasurable; but this contradicts what the whole world sees." (Snp 3.12)
"It is natural that one who knows and sees things as they really are is disenchanted and dispassionate." (AN 10.2)
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” (Flannery O'Connor)
"It is natural that one who knows and sees things as they really are is disenchanted and dispassionate." (AN 10.2)
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” (Flannery O'Connor)
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Congratulations with your soon-to-be ordination
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