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Re: Buddhist Adventures
It is a grand adventure to find that which we have an affinity with. What we will acquire only eventually to give to another. May the circle be unbroken. (View Post)
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Re: Westerners and Buddhism - a question.
@Jayantha. I agree that without a western laity supporting western monasteries and monastics we are not there yet. In my early years when a lot less solvent fellow buddhists made the travel to distan… (View Post)
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Re: Lamas Loving Wealth, Rolexes and iPads
@Walker. I remember the sixties well. The questioning of authority had some value. The neo-conformity had less. The entire history of how people reacted to the culture of the times has yet to be writ… (View Post)1 -
Re: Lamas Loving Wealth, Rolexes and iPads
Excuses for bad conduct are not a solution. Any more than investigation without discernment is productive. (View Post)1 -
Re: The "Marathon Monks" and myth building.
Devadatta wished to be proclaimed as Shakyamunis dharma error. His desire was thwarted. Thereupon he schemed to kill the Blessed One. Sorrowful Devadatta so close to the tree so far from the truth. (View Post)
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