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We discuss Early Buddhism and related topics on www.thegentlelaw.substack.com Registered Charity: The Gentle Law, SC053965

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My First Encounter with the Vedalla Suttas

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My First Encounter with the Vedalla Suttas

What “Vedalla” Means

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Grief and Clinging

Ekaputtakasutta (Udāna 2.7)

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#grief #clinging #buddhism

Grief and Clinging

Ekaputtakasutta (Udāna 2.7)

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 1d

If you think the slave trade was only about Africans, you’re mistaken.

The transatlantic trade involved 10 million innocent people and caused the death of around 2 million.

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#slavery #slavetrade #black #africa #justice

The Other Slave Trade: How White Slavery Shaped History

…and Why Britain Paid Slave Owners Until 2015

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 1d

If you think the slave trade was only about Africans, you’re mistaken.

The transatlantic trade involved 10 million innocent people and caused the death of around 2 million.

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#slavery #slavetrade #black #africa #justice

The Other Slave Trade: How White Slavery Shaped History

…and Why Britain Paid Slave Owners Until 2015

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 2d

Grief and Clinging
Ekaputtakasutta (Udāna 2.7)

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#buddhism #sutra #udana #buddhisteachings

Grief and Clinging

Ekaputtakasutta (Udāna 2.7)

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 2d

Grief and Clinging

Ekaputtakasutta (Udāna 2.7)

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#udana #buddhism #buddhistteachings #sutra

Grief and Clinging

Ekaputtakasutta (Udāna 2.7)

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 2d

Grief and Clinging

Ekaputtakasutta (Udāna 2.7)

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#udana #buddhism #buddhistteachings #sutra

Grief and Clinging

Ekaputtakasutta (Udāna 2.7)

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 3d

Lesson 38

Causative Verbs (Part 2)
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Causative Verbs (Part 2)

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 3d

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The Nothing That Set Me Free

The Nothing That Set Me Free I built my first fortress when I was seven. It was made of pillows, a worn bedsheet, and the specific, unshakeable belief that my older brother was not to be allowed …

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 3d

THE NOTHING THAT SET ME FREE

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The Nothing That Set Me Free

The Nothing That Set Me Free I built my first fortress when I was seven. It was made of pillows, a worn bedsheet, and the specific, unshakeable belief that my older brother was not to be allowed …

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 4d

Buddhism & Emily Dickinson

Saturday Parallels

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#buddhism #emilydickinson #quotes #literature

Buddhism & Emily Dickinson

Saturday Parallels

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 6d

The Five Elements

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#fiveelements #buddhism #taoism
#awakening

The Gentle Law | Matt Bianca | Substack

...a sutra a day keeps dukkha away. We discuss Early Buddhism and relative topics. About our language courses, Sutra studies, and meditation sessions: https://thegentlelaw.wordpress.com. Click to…

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 7d

The Two Hearts of Almaty: From Bronze Legends to the Singing Steppe.

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The Two Hearts of Almaty: From Bronze Legends to the Singing Steppe

The Two Hearts of Almaty: From Bronze Legends to the Singing Steppe There is the Almaty you meet, and the Almaty that whispers to you later. The first is a city of pop music and commerce, of sunlight…

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 7d

Borneo Rhino Alliance: Saving the Last Sumatran Rhinos in Borneo.

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Borneo Rhino Alliance: Saving the Last Sumatran Rhinos in Borneo

The Sumatran rhinoceros, once roaming widely across Southeast Asia’s rainforests, now teeters on the brink of extinction. Since its…

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 8d

The Unfinished City: Faith, Fire, and a Sukhoi on the Caspian Shore.

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#aktau #kazakhstan #travel #soviet

The Unfinished City: Faith, Fire, and a Sukhoi on the Caspian Shore

The Unfinished City: Faith, Fire, and a Sukhoi on the Caspian Shore. They told me Aktau was a city on the edge of the world. The maps agreed: it was a punctuation mark at the end of Kazakhstan, a …

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 8d

Auroville: The Mother, the Guru, and the Commercial Spirit.

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Auroville: The Mother, the Guru, and the Commercial Spirit.

About an hour’s drive from the French colonial town of Pondicherry, tucked away on the southeastern coast of India, lies a unique…

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 9d

The Parable of Possession and Pain

Gabbhinīsutta (Udāna 6.6)

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#possession #craving #pain #sutra #bhuddhisteachings

The Parable of Possession and Pain

Gabbhinīsutta (Udāna 6.6)

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 9d

The Great Museum of Emptiness

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#emptiness #sunnyata #museum #bishkek

Bishkek's Quiet Lesson in Emptiness

Between the frozen statues of ideologies and musicians, I found a museum that taught me everything about nothing.

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 10d

Pali: Lesson 37

Causative Verbs
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#pali #learnpali #studypali #buddhism #sanskrit

Causative Verbs

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 11d

Udāna 8.3

Saturday Parallels

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#udana #buddhism#sutra #sutta

Saturday Parallels

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 12d

Behind the Mask of Science

Inside Japan’s Brutal Whale Slaughter
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#japan #whalekilling #noscience #seashepheard #animalrights

Behind the Mask of Science

Inside Japan’s Brutal Whale Slaughter

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 13d

Dwelling in Emptiness

Exploring the Path of Supreme Vacuity

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#vacuity #buddhism #emptiness #sunnyata #sutra

Dwelling in Emptiness

Exploring the Path of Supreme Vacuity

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 13d

Dwelling in Emptiness

Exploring the Path of Supreme Vacuity

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#vacuity #buddhism #emptiness #sunnyata #sutra

Dwelling in Emptiness

Exploring the Path of Supreme Vacuity

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TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 14d

Calgary: A City Flowing Between Waters

#calgary #canada #travel #tourism

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Calgary: A City Flowing Between Waters

I first arrived in Calgary on a clear summer afternoon, the kind of day where the air feels both wide open and freshly washed. The city…

TheGentleLaw @thegentlelaw.bsky.social · 15d

How Coca-Cola and Alibaba Invented Culture.

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#cocacola #alibaba #santaclaus #culturebrand

Santa Claus and Dong Yuan

How Coca-Cola and Alibaba Invented Culture