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matthewmartin · Amateur Bodhisattva · Veteran
Testing 123. My blog is http://suburbandestiny.com
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Re: Can Buddhists celebrate Valentine Day?
It is Uposatha day. By chance. It's also my younger son's Birthday. So that's cause enough to celebrate this year. I checked wikipedia: Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine among all those ".… (View Post)
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Re: Bare Bones Buddhism
(Quote) Two broad understandings of enlightenment-- end suffering by realizing desire and aversion involve desiring things that can't last and that what we're adverse to passes, too. That is a fortun… (View Post)
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Re: Is Vegetarianism valid?
(Quote) re: natural order of things That's a very un-buddhisty thought. Maybe a perfectly fine wiccan one, but not Buddhist. There isn't an essential nature to anything. The ecosystem is just one of … (View Post)
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Re: is there any historical evidence that buddha existed out of pali canon?
(Quote) According to Lopez in "From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha " for several hundred years in Europe the stories travelers brought back from the East were so garbled abou… (View Post)
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Re: Yay! Sangha Day!
Send checks! I think many temples are essentially serving their local community, so it makes the most sense for those communities to support their sangha. However, there are monasteries that are esse… (View Post)
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