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BhanteLucky · Alternative lifestyle person in the South Island of New Zealand · Veteran
About
- Username
- BhanteLucky
- Location
- New Zealand
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- Member
- Points
- 829
- Location
- New Zealand
- Languages Spoken
- English
- Affiliation
- Theravada Forest Tradition
Reactions
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Re: Insight Meditation Society
(Quote) Yes, I think that sums it up. However, they do tend to put everything in terms that modern western materialists will understand. Their courses are crazy expensive, but you can do volunteer wo… (View Post)
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Re: Would you like to be rich?
(Quote) Thank you for the suggestion @blu3ree, I will keep it in mind. :D However, it is all allocated. I just paid off my student loan, and now I have three savings targets. As soon as I reach the t… (View Post)
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Re: Thich Nhat Hanh's critique of scripture based practice
Look, how many of you would have progressed on this path, if you had not read any books or scriptures? A show of hands please. Now, how many of you would not have practised anything like the Buddha's… (View Post)1 -
Re: Thich Nhat Hanh's critique of scripture based practice
If you want to bake a cake and have no idea how to cook, you read a cookbook. Then bake! Yum! If you want to be released from suffering, and have no idea how, you read the suttas. Then practise! Yum!… (View Post)
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Re: Alcohol Substitute
@Seph, that's some good stuff you typed up there. A lot of it sounds very similar to Thich Nhat Hanh's "Fifth Mindfulness Training": (his take on the Fifth Precept)Aware of the suffering ca… (View Post)2