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He who, having traversed this miry, perilous,
and delusive round of existence,
who has crossed over, and reached the other shore,
who is meditative, calm, free from doubt,
and, clinging to nothing, has attained to nibbāna:
him do I call a holy one. (Dpd 414)
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Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Community
Uposatha Day, New Moon, February 10, 2013 Index to this series This is the next chapter of my eBook on Buddhist Religiosity. I am doing…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Refuge
Uposatha Day, February 3, 2012 Index to this series Chapter 3. Refuge. In summary of the last chapter, reverential trust (or faith) in the Triple…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Core Buddhism
Uposatha Day, Full Moon, January 26, 2013 Index to this series Chapter 2. Core Buddhism There is a Buddhism that shines through constantly through the…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Introduction
Uposatha Day, First Quarter Moon, January 19, 2013 Index to this series I have been reworking some of my previous writings into an eBook of…
The Calgary Talk on Dana
Uposatha Day 1/11/2013 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPPFKkcdUDs] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxzCSmIRDvU] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5sKHsbzxCE] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFrZlqR0AQ]
Uposatha Day Post 1/5/2013
Buddhist Rules and Culture The Vinaya, the First Basket of early Buddhist teachings is the Code for Monks and Nuns, the rules, regulations, policies…
Uposatha Day 12/28/2012
Ch. 12. Requisites of the Bhikkhu A monk is like a house pet: helpless on his own, absolutely and vulnerably dependent on the kind hand…
Greetings from Canada
Banf, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, December 20, 2012.
Uposatha Day 12/21/2012 (and Mayan End-of-the-World Day)
Tales of Burma This is the eleventh and latest chapter of my autobiographical narrative Through the Looking Glass to attain draft completion. This will leave…
Uposatha Day 12/12/2012
Travels with Bhante I flew to California on the first of the month to spend about ten days with my father on the Point Reyes…
Uposatha Day 12/7/2012
A new essay: What Did the Buddha Think of Women? Buddhism is widely know throughout the world as a religion of peace and kindness. Unfortunately it…
Uposatha Day 11/28/2012
Our Amazing Sangha The Buddhist monastic order is plausibly the world’s oldest human organization in continual existence, still recognizable in terms of attire, life-style, practice…
Uposatha Day 11/21/2012 (a little late)
Shining Through I have been reading a lot of “Gombrich” lately. Richard Gombrich is a very respected British scholar of Buddhism. Scholars of Buddhism generally…
Uposatha Day 11/13/12
I have been considering how best to proceed with my writing (you might have gotten a sense of that if you noticed that I sent…
Robes of the Bhikkhu
Uposatha Day, Full Moon, October 30, 2012 From a forthcoming chapter of my bio, much of it originally written in Burma in 2009, appropriate now…