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Re: So where to start?
The Buddha often said the path begins with making our morality blameless. Not just good or acceptable, but perfect. So the precepts, I think these are very important and something you can already do … (View Post)
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Re: How does Buddhism explain the source of suffering?
(Quote) I do ;) The Buddha's first discourse: "The Noble Truth of the Origin (cause) of Suffering is this: It is this craving (thirst) which produces re-becoming (rebirth) accompanied by passion… (View Post)
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Re: How does Buddhism explain the source of suffering?
@Invincible_summer Could be. But I do not know what was said. If nobody said anything about the noble truths, and she didn't know about them, perhaps she was just looking in the wrong direction becau… (View Post)
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Re: How does Buddhism explain the source of suffering?
"It's just as if a man were wounded with an arrow thickly smeared with poison. His friends & companions, kinsmen & relatives would provide him with a surgeon, and the man would say, 'I w… (View Post)
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Re: Sutra Club: Kalama Sutta
Nowadays, I guess even much more than in the time of the Buddha, people trust that what their thoughts say is true. They are attached to thought, identify with thought. So when people have certain th… (View Post)2