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Re: Buddhist quotes
“Generosity, kind words, doing a good turn for others, treating all people alike: these bonds of sympathy are to the world what the linchpin is to the chariot wheel.” Jataka 20(Image) (View Post)
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Re: Dare we update the dharma?
(Quote) DHAMMIKA: Every modern translation is, in essence, an update and interpretation. See the different word choices and phrasings of the Dhammapada as translated by Gil Fronsdal or Bhante Sujato’… (View Post)
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Re: Buddhist quotes
"As the Buddha once said, our duty with regard to suffering is to comprehend it, to understand it to the point where we stop creating it, where we can let it go. All the causes, all the conditio… (View Post)2 -
Re: Literal or figurative?
Metta practice seems to me to be a kind of counter-programming to the easy habits of dislike and annoyance, especially when wishing metta to people with whom we hold grudges. Do they benefit? Who kno… (View Post)3 -
Re: Looking at your life from the outside
I have spent too many years trying to be extraordinary in my work (for various therapy-worthy reasons) when the ordinary was quite enough—and a lot less neurotic and stressful. These days, I try to r… (View Post)2