Chapter 02. Appamadavagga: Heedfulness By earnestness Maghavă rose to the lordship of the gods. Earnestness is ever praised; carelessness is ever despised. ...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 3, 2000 12:18 pm
What do we really mean by "Living in the present"? Does that mean that we do not think about the past or the future? This would not be possible or desirable. ...
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Dhammika Fernando
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Sep 3, 2000 10:41 pm
Subject: FW: Food for thought! Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child For all of us who have children it sure is a real...
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Bhikkhu Wimalananda
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Sep 3, 2000 11:43 pm
... Explanation: In the Magha Manavaka Jataka, a person called Magha recruited good friends and from time to time arranged working bees (Shramadana) and did...
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Sep 4, 2000 1:07 pm
Chapter 03. Cittavagga: The Mind The mind is hard to check, swift, flits wherever it listeth, the control of which is good; a controlled mind is conducive to...
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Sep 5, 2000 10:58 am
Chapter 04. Pupphavagga: Flowers As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not...
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Sep 6, 2000 11:56 am
Chapter 04. Pupphavagga: Flowers A disciple in training (sekha) will conquer this earth, and this realm of Yama together with the realm of the gods; a disciple...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 7, 2000 12:00 am
Check for picture at the bottom... ======== The Birth of The Bodhisatta On a full moon day in the month of May (Visakha) 2600 years ago was born a Prince named...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 7, 2000 10:23 pm
Recently a friend and I were talking about how The Lord Buddha had not revealed anthing about how life began, whether life existed on other planets and other ...
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Sep 7, 2000 10:24 pm
Chapter 04. Pupphavagga: Flowers As a flower that is lovely, beautiful, and scent-laden, even so fruitful is the well-spoken word of one who practises it. ...
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Dhammika Fernando
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Sep 7, 2000 10:39 pm
Have you read the "Agganna Sutra", which describes the beginning of civilis= ation? That is the most scientific speculation on the subject that I have = come...
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Sep 10, 2000 12:29 pm
Chapter 05. Balavagga: Fools Long is the night to the wakeful; long is the league to the weary; long is samsăra to the foolish who know not the Sublime Truth....
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Sep 11, 2000 11:50 am
Chapter 05. Balavagga: Fools A fool who knows that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man; the fool who thinks that he is wise is called fool indeed. ...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 11, 2000 10:37 pm
Check for picture at the bottom of this email:- ====== Manifold was the variety of all the sensuous delights within the palace, the music and song that filled...
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Sep 12, 2000 11:07 pm
Chapter 05. Balavagga: Fools Though an intelligent person only for a moment associates with a wise man, quickly he understands the Dhamma as the tongue the...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 13, 2000 5:50 pm
[1] Q: What is Buddhism? A: Buddhism is a body of teachings given out by the great personage known as The Buddha. [2] Q: Is "Buddhism" the best name for this...
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Sep 13, 2000 6:29 pm
Chapter 05. Balavagga: Fools That deed is not well done when after having done it one repents, and when one weeping and with tearful face reaps the fruit...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 13, 2000 7:47 pm
[1] Q: What is Buddhism? A: Buddhism is a body of teachings given out by the great personage known as The Buddha. [2] Q: Is "Buddhism" the best name for this...
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Ranjith Soysa
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Sep 14, 2000 1:06 pm
From: yick keng hang <yick2@...> Subject:[triplegem] THE 4 IMMEASURABLES - LOVING KINDNESS (METTA) - PT 1/4 Date: September 11, 2000 12:20:44 PM EDT In...
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Sep 14, 2000 1:12 pm
Chapter 05. Balavagga: Fools Verily, an evil deed committed does not immediately bear fruit, just as milk curdles not at once; smouldering, it follows the fool...
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Sep 17, 2000 7:36 am
Chapter 06. Panditavagga: The Wise But those who rightly act according to the teaching, which is well expounded, those are they who will reach the Further...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 18, 2000 2:57 am
[6] Q: When was the Dharma first taught? A: There is some disagreement as to the actual date, but according to Sinhalese Scriptures it was in the year 2513 of...
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Sep 18, 2000 12:31 pm
Chapter 07. Arahantavagga: The Arahat The mindful exert themselves; to no abode are they attached; like swans that quit their pools, home after home they...
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Sep 19, 2000 12:47 pm
Chapter 07. Arahantavagga: The Arahat He whose corruptions are destroyed, he who is not attached to food, he whose object is the Void, the Signless,...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 20, 2000 1:48 am
Check for picture at bottom:- ====== All King Suddhodana's efforts to protect his son from the four sights of old-age, disease, death and a recluse are of no...
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Sep 20, 2000 12:01 pm
Chapter 07. Arahantavagga: The Arahat He whose senses are subdued, like steeds well trained by a charioteer; he whose pride is destroyed and is free from the...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 20, 2000 10:58 pm
[11] Q: Was Buddha actually his name? A: No. "Buddha" is a condition or state of mind, of a mind after it has reached the culmination of development. [12] Q:...
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Sep 21, 2000 11:54 am
Chapter 07. Arahantavagga: The Arahat Like the earth, like an indakhěla, a balanced and well-conducted person is not resentful; like a pool unsullied by mud...
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Sep 24, 2000 11:54 am
Chapter 07. Arahantavagga: The Arahat The man who is not credulous, who understands the uncreate (Nibbăna), who has cut off the links, who has put an end to...
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Rasika Wijayaratne
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Sep 25, 2000 4:36 am
[16] Q: Where was Kapilavastu? A: In India, one hundred miles north-east of the City of Benares, and about forty miles from the Himalaya Mountains. It was...
