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Purification is best in Sweet Silent Solitude!

Friends:

Purification is best in Sweet Silent Solitude!

CONTENT WHEN UNDERSTANDING
Solitude is happiness for one, who is content,
Who sees and clearly understands this Dhamma.
Harmlessness is happiness in all worlds,
Kindness towards all living b

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Friends: NYC Taxi driver made compassion shine in action

Friends:

NYC Taxi driver made compassion shine in action:

"I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I
honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about
just driving away, but instead

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Half the spiritual life consists in remembering what we are up against and where we are going

Half the spiritual life consists in remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
- Ayya Khema, "When the Iron Eagle Flies"

Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others--whe

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Buddhism in China

Buddhism in China

From Lisa Chiu, former About.com Guide

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buddhism

chinese buddhism

religion in china

A visitor at the National Art Museum in Beijing views a replica of a Buddhist statue from the Mogao Cave on the Silk Road.

China Pho

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DailyOm – Stepping Stones + A World in Confusion + Underneath the Noise + Other People’s Agendas + A Dynamic Choice-Maker + Spreading Your Light + Words of Wisdom + Seasons of Beauty + More

DailyOm – Stepping Stones

April 6, 2011
Stepping Stones

One Day at a Time

Our lives are made of stepping stones, one experience after another in perfect and divine order.

The years of our life do not arrive all at once; they greet us day by day. W

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About Flowers in Buddhism

About Flowers in Buddhism
Grahame Turner

Grahame Turner has worked as a freelance writer since 2009 and a freelance reporter since 2010 for Wellesley Patch and Jamaica Plain Patch in Massachusetts. He also works part-time as a bookseller at the North

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Devotion in Buddhism

Devotion in Buddhism

by
Nyanaponika Thera
© 2004–2012

The Buddha repeatedly discouraged any excessive veneration paid to him personally. He knew that an excess of purely emotional devotion can obstruct or disturb the development of a balanced char

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The Six Realms of Existence in Buddhism

Buddhism Site

Lisa Erickson

BellaOnline's Buddhism Editor

The Six Realms of Existence in Buddhism
The 'six realms of existence', sometimes also translated as the 'six states of samsara' or the 'six paths of rebirth', are the six main types of birth

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Company digging mine in Afghanistan unearths 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery

Company digging mine in Afghanistan unearths 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery
By Daily Mail Reporter

A Chinese company digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan has unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhi

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Keep this painting in your room and it can help clear away negative vibrations

Keep this painting in your room and it can help clear away negative vibrations

Buddhist Monks Energy Clearing Painting Giclee Print Zoom

Unleash the power of energy clearing, spiritual transcendence and astral projection.

About

This exquisite p

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DailyOm – Full Release + Circling the Wagons + Dodging And Deflecting + Temporarily Out Of Balance + Gathering Intelligence + Taking Another Look + Spiritual Being--Physical Experience + Poetry in Mot

DailyOm – Full Release

January 25, 2011
Full Release

Water Meditation

Meditating with water can be a powerful way of aligning ourselves with an element that sustains us.

Our bodies are over fifty percent water, so it makes sense that human beings ha

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Great Disciples of the Lord Buddha: Sariputta, Pre-Eminent in Profound Wisdom

Sariputra's Youth

Sariputra was born in a village in Magadha at southern India. His father was a noted Brahmin scholar. When his mother conceived him, she had extraordinary wisdom, which was believed to be influenced by the baby in her womb. E

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Planting Dhamma Seeds: The Emergence of Buddhism in Africa

Bhante Bikkhu Buddharakkhita is the first African Buddhist monk on the continent. He is the founder of the Ugandan Buddhist Centre in Entebbe, Uganda. This is the first Buddhist Centre founded by an African.

Planting Dhamma Seeds: The Emergence of

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The Mummified Monk in Samui

The Mummified Monk in Samui

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Richard Barrow

Samui is a popular destination for foreign tourists who go there for the sun, sea and surf. But, there is also something there that reminds us that we are not permanent f

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Archive for the ‘Meditative Thoughts’ Category Laying Asleep in the Infinite Bosom of Duration

Archive for the ‘Meditative Thoughts’ Category

Laying Asleep in the Infinite Bosom of Duration

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

I just came across a piece of text from my notes of the seminar with Sri Kumar in India, January 2006, where he spoke on Th

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Buddhism in China

Buddhism in China
From Lisa Chiu, former About.com Guide

Buddhism or 汉传 (fójiào) was first brought to China from India by missionaries and traders along the Silk Road that connected China with Europe in the late Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD).

By then

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DailyOm – Conscious Creation + Potlatch + The Gift of This Journey + Analyzing the Path + Asking and Receiving + Permission to Forgive Ourselves + Solace in Service

DailyOm – Conscious Creation

December 15, 2010
Conscious Creation

The First Moments Of The Day

When we very first open our eyes it sets the tone for all that comes after it, our ability to create the day.

The moment during the day when we very firs

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Practicing Buddhism in Daily Life

Spiritual Life and Daily Life

Many people have the misconception that spiritual life or religious life is somewhere up there in the sky -- an etherea

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DailyOm – Not Alone in the Dark

DailyOm – Not Alone in the Dark
October 26, 2010

Not Alone in the Dark

Looking at What We Don’t Want to See

The things we don't want to look at in ourselves are the very things we need to look at.

It is one of life's great paradoxes that the things we

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DailyOm – Miracles in Every Day

DailyOm – Miracles in Every Day
October 13, 2010

Miracles in Every Day

Joy Always

Beholding the joy that surrounds us may seem easy, but for some it can take an effort, an effort worth making.

It is the everyday aspects of our lives that bring us th

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