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Re: Contentment and ambition? Help please
(Quote) Contentment means being satisfied with having little. Even monks have basic requisites of food, clothing, shelter and medicines for which they are dependent on lay followers. As a minimum for… (View Post)
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Re: Sayings
Days go and days come. Why count the spokes of a wheel? Centre’s ever still. (View Post)
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Re: Theravada Mahayana
100 years after the Buddha's Parinibbana the Second Council convenes in Vesali to discuss controversial points of Vinaya. The first schism of the Sangha occurs, in which the Mahasanghika school parts… (View Post)
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Re: Why do we get reborn?
All that is born has to die. Sabbe sankhara anicca. Without birth there is no death and without death there is no "rebirth". Since each moment is fresh, nothing ever repeats. There is no re… (View Post)
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Re: Why do we get reborn?
Clinging to existence. The whole thrust of living beings is to continue to exist (bhavatanha)- a hopeless task in the face of impermanence. (View Post)
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