Friends: What is the thing not really being? The blessed Buddha once said: Blissful is solitude for one who is content, learned & who see the True Dhamma. More...
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ken
gebserisch
Sep 3, 2008 12:21 pm
... Hash: SHA1 *Tibetan Bon Teachings in Cleveland* With Menri Ponlob Trinley Rinpoche *September 19-20-21, 2008* Ponlob Rinpoche will present teachings on the...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu0
Sep 4, 2008 3:10 am
Friends: The Four Modes of Direct Experience: The Exalted Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are these 4 realizable states: What four ? By the body one realizes...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu0
Sep 5, 2008 3:32 am
Friends: Five x Five Crucial Core Buddhist Categories: There are five Mental Abilities <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Five_Abilities_Summary.htm> : 1:...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu0
Sep 6, 2008 1:44 am
Daily Words of the Buddha for 6 September 2008 The Blessed Buddha once said: Sabbe sattā, sabbe pānā, sabbe bhūtā ca kevalā, sabbe bhadrāni passantu. ...
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SJ Garette
collies85
Sep 7, 2008 1:46 am
Hi, Samahita sent the Five x Five Crucial Core Buddhist Categories Under the Five Rules of Training No. 1 says " No Killing" Okay does that mean...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu0
Sep 7, 2008 9:26 am
... One should not kill anything at all. Why not? Just the intention results in shorter future lives = own early death! It thus highly disadvantageous to kill...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu0
Sep 7, 2008 9:59 am
Friends: How not to Continue and Prolong Suffering? The Blessed Buddha once said: Friends, whoever recluse or priest now, in the past, or in the future regard ...
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Sal_ B
salbecker56
Sep 7, 2008 12:06 pm
... knowing that most who have dedicated their lives to this way of live are Vegetarians by definition. So to that extent, it would appear that the answer to...
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Ken/
klegshe
Sep 7, 2008 1:06 pm
We mourn the loss of the Dalai Lama's brother, Takster Rinpoche, in Bloomington, IN. More info can be found at: ...
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BRIDGET CUDDIE
bridgetcuddie06
Sep 7, 2008 2:49 pm
My understanding is that, yes, we should not kill animals either. I believe Tibetan monks are allowed to eat meat only if they can be sure that it was not...
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Stephen Fox
stephensantafe
Sep 7, 2008 7:03 pm
Lama's Brother Takster Rimpoche Dies in Indiana - Author of This is My Country http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stephenfox/gG5WsZ...
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John Pellecchia
pellejf
Sep 8, 2008 1:45 am
Jade, There is nothing that spurs a more heated debate among the Buddhists in discussion groups than the issue of consuming meat. A lot of what I have found is...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu0
Sep 8, 2008 7:29 am
Friends: This World is Messed Up! The Buddha once told a deity: This world is suffering from Death, Troubled by ageing, decay and sickness, Wounded by the Dart...
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Cittamani
peace_tara531
Sep 8, 2008 2:23 pm
"Enlightenment is real; and each of us, whoever we are, can in the right circumstances and with the right training realize the nature of mind and so know in us...
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jennyclarkson1985
jennyclarkso...
Sep 8, 2008 8:04 pm
Hi Bridget, I am relatively new to Buddhism, but not to the pro-vegetarian debate. I am in my final practice year as a student Vet, and a committed vegetarian...
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Mike Herrera
mherrera11
Sep 8, 2008 8:29 pm
I have been reading this thread with great interest because it is a subject that I have been giving a lot of thought to lately on a personal level. I haven't...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu0
Sep 9, 2008 4:00 am
Friends: The Middle Way of Wise Moderate Ontology: The Blessed Buddha on remarked on speculation on existence: This world, Kaccana, is generally chained up by...
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jennyclarkson1985
jennyclarkso...
Sep 9, 2008 9:47 am
Hi Mike, Thank you for pointing out the error of my salutation. It should of course have read "Compassion to all, human and animal". You are right that the...
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BRIDGET CUDDIE
bridgetcuddie06
Sep 9, 2008 11:17 am
I have one teensy thing more to say before I leave this subject for a future debate. I do study energy work and I am taught that meat does interfere with free...
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michael
cnm_divers
Sep 9, 2008 11:20 am
To those who have participated in this discourse, I havefollowed this discourse with a light heart and toward that end my post is not a direct respsonse to...
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jennyclarkson1985
jennyclarkso...
Sep 9, 2008 12:28 pm
Hi Michael, Thank you for your comments. I agree with you that there are some things we really can't change, but I would add that there are a great many more...
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michael
cnm_divers
Sep 9, 2008 6:49 pm
Apparently we are willing to save sentient beings that do cute little things with their hands or rub their butts against fences. Don't be angry that there...
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SJ Garette
collies85
Sep 9, 2008 7:07 pm
Hi Everyone, Earlier one person on the list said to follow the Four Noble Truths to stay on a basic path of Buddhist teachings. Does anyone one know what...
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jennyclarkson1985
jennyclarkso...
Sep 9, 2008 7:15 pm
Hi Michael, In partial answer to your questions: As a Vet I don't just like the cute and fluffy ones, I try to help reduce/prevent suffering wherever I can,...
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Ken/
klegshe
Sep 9, 2008 9:20 pm
There is the truth of suffering. There is the truth of the causes of suffering. There is the truth of the cessation of suffering. There is the truth of the...
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John Pellecchia
pellejf
Sep 9, 2008 9:38 pm
My comments are not necessarily directed to the last poster. It's just easier for me to respond in this manner rather than doing so on the group site. So,...
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John Pellecchia
pellejf
Sep 9, 2008 10:35 pm
Good evening Jade, The core teaching of Buddhism is expressed in The Four Noble Truths: that suffering (the term is "dukkha" which some translate as...
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ken
gebserisch
Sep 10, 2008 1:14 am
... Hash: SHA1 Thanks very much for this, John. Very informative. And I love this kind of thing. From other studies I learned that translations are nearly...
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josephpeek
Sep 10, 2008 1:25 am
Ken I've been reading "In the Buddha's Words - An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon", edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi. Each chapter contains an introduction,...
