January 2012
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The Stream
As the stream flows it disturbs the stream-bed and becomes cloudy. If it is a calm stream, it picks up less sediment from the bed. If it is un-calm it collects a great deal of sediment and becomes thick with particles of kamma. If it is completely calm, it doesn’t pick up kamma but actually starts dropping sediment back onto the bed.
Eventually the stream becomes a river, or perhaps flows...
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Anatta, atta or neither.
I have spent much of the last week or two on a buddhist discussion group trying to learn more about the view of most people there that anatta is right-view and that it is worth studying.
I was very unsure and as time has gone on and I have read quite a bit elsewhere on the subject, I have concluded for myself that whilst anatta is correct in a conventional or conditioned sense, it is probably not...
December 2011
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A group for those new to the buddhadahamma...
Dhamma Discussion This group will differ from most in our concentration on one excerpt of text per week for the benefit of newer students of the dhamma. In this way, it is hoped that a deeper understanding of the text may develop. If you are a more experienced student, you would be very welcome indeed to join. By participating here, you would be performing a very meritous act of dana, helping...
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Why I am celibate
Hi. Why am I celibate? As a traveller of the buddhist path, I have found great difficulty in reconciling my physical pleasure through sex (with another and/or alone) with my developing understanding of the dhamma and attachment. It also presented me with problems around whether I was really showing true compassion towards a partner by having sex with him. Having spent the last few days on a kind...
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Meditation needs context.
Meditation Needs Context
The practice of mindfulness-awareness meditation does not take place in a vacuum. It happens within a certain context and point of view. In the Buddhist tradition, meditation is often presented in the context of view, meditation, and action. Each of these three is essential, as a system of checks and balances. If we do not understand the view, the practice of...
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Don't think too much...
What is Emptiness?
Emptiness is a mode of perception, a way of looking at experience. It adds nothing to, and takes nothing away from, the raw data of physical and mental events. You look at events in the mind and the senses with no thought of whether there’s anything lying behind them. This mode is called emptiness because it is empty of the presuppositions we usually add to...
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why online business is a dangerous concept for an...
times are hard!
there is no denying it. it is in this kind of climate that many people are tempted by the idea of starting a business online.
now, let be clear about what i mean here, and what i will hereto refer to as ‘online business’.
many people will use the internet to help promote, boost, conduct and expand their existing business. this is great and the internet, to my mind,...
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motivated by values. distracted by dreams. hi. well, my name is andy. i’m 44 years young and over these years i have developed quite an eclectic, yet rooted approach to life. eclectic in that i am always in search of new ideas, perspectives and ways of approaching this complex world. rooted in that for me to take any of these new ideas seriously, they have to have certain criteria in...
