Not to worry. If the world abuse you do not be depressed because this is the nature of the world. If the world praise you dont be happy because this is the...
Hello friend Ville, and welcome to the JSG. Please excuse the long delay in my welcome, but I am sure one of the other moderators already welcomed you. It...
Hola dear Mauro, and welcome to the JSG. It is very nice to hear that you have arrived at jhana so early on in your practice and that it is progressing so...
Hello my dear friend Michael it is excellent to hear your most noble enquiry on this noble list. Yes, you are correct that the Buddha in fact partly defines...
Hello friend Tom, and thank-you ever so much for your kind reply. I was more interested in Danny's sources for his quote from the Siva Samhita, please see...
Hello dear querynoquery, and thank-you for your kind words of support for our work at the GWV and JSG. While I wish I could say the dark night of the soul is...
Hello dear friends Siddhananda Devi and querynoquery, and thank-you ever so much for your kind responses. Yes, my retreat has been excellent, but now that I...
Hello Ian and thank-you for starting this most interesting thread. And, thank-you to Tom, Jill, Nirodha, for your most interesting replies to this thread....
Hello Leo, Garry, Sand and Peter, sorry, I agree with Sand. Speculating about what constitutes nibbana seems like a fruitless effort. We have dialoged on the...
Hello dear Sand, your are quite right in many respects, however, if you read the instructions that immediately follow the ones you quoted from the Anapanasati...
Hello dear Jhanananda, Thank you so much for this thoughtful and detailed answer to my query. You've cleared up my misperceptions. As is so often the case, I...
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... Hi James, A good friend of mine was invited to live at Wat Pah Nanachat. I don't think he made it quite as long as you. His experience and opinions sound...
I enjoyed reading both these two suttas, Leo, and looked up the first one for further study. It is SN XXXV.80 and one interesting point is that Thanissaro...
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There is a book called "What the Buddha never taught" (I can't remember the author) which is about a starry eyed westerner trying to integrate into a Thai...
Hi Jeff--I'm curious, did you ever catch up with Steven? Your journal reads like a mystery novel, today. Give your angel a gift! Intersting you have a female...
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Hello brother Leo, I wish to thank-you for posting yet two more suttas to this noble list. These two suttas are quite dear to me, and I have in fact spent...
Dear All, We are starting a campaign to chant 1 million mantras for the following aspirations May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the causes of...
I "condensed" this famous prayer into: "May all beings have happiness and be free from suffering forever" Short and to the point without (I believe) leaving...
Dear Dante, May all beings have happiness but happiness is and effect and to to have the causes too is important Likewise Suffering is an effect and does have...
Hi Allan- well of course you can spin out the prayer into a full Abhidharma discourse if you want to, thats just my point- no need to bother with causes,...
Dear Dante, Agreed. All should have it. Sometimes I wish all sentient beings should be full but I also wish that they will have continuous supply of good...
I'd like to ask about this. Certain sentient beings like animals can't chant mantras, so does that mean someone else chanting them does? And what is...
the line you are referring to actually translates "may all beings never be separated from the happiness of no-suffering", that is, we want not only to be happy...
