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Solitary Buddhist practitioner | student of the Noble 8Fold Path

Here to share the gift of true Dhamma for your reflection
May the Buddhasāsana last long!

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A great Thai master (Ven. Ajahn Chah) has said, “If you’ve got time to breathe, then you’ve got time to meditate.”

That said, many people find ...

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November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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You have greed and delusion in the mind but don’t know it. You won’t know anything if ...

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November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Suppose that not far from a town or village, there was a large grove of sal trees that was choked with castor-oil weeds.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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While you’re on the path, you have to hold to it. This is part of the message of the simile of the raft ...

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November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The highest fruition of merit is identical with the culmination of the Buddhist holy life itself—

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November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Ajahn Liem advises us to practice for the sake of practicing. In other words, ...

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November 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Purifying virtue is not so much about getting the legal description of the precepts and then seeing how much one has to do and how much one can get away with. It’s more about approaching the precepts from ...

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November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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We suffer so much because ...

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November 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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The reason why the Dhamma teachings have survived is because the Buddha worked really hard ...

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November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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To whatever extent there are phenomena conditioned or unconditioned, ...

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November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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For these sublime attitudes* to be fully developed, they must pervade your thoughts, words, and deeds. Only then will they be effective ...

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November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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You’ve probably heard the rumor that “Life is suffering” is Buddhism’s first principle, the Buddha’s first noble truth. It’s a rumor with good credentials ...

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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Nibbāna is emptiness of the mind. The mind is cluttered with ...

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November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Sadness is actually not depressing. We can become depressed by wanting it to be otherwise, ...

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November 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Long is the night to the sleepless;
long is the league to the weary.
Long is worldly existence to fools
who know not the Sublime Truth.
~Dhammapada 60

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October 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The Pali word sīla originally meant simply conduct. But in the context of the Buddhist spiritual training, the term is used to...

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October 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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📡🧡🧡🧡Radiating Pavāraṇā Full Moon mettā:
May all hardships be alleviated.
May all misfortunes be averted.
May good triumph over evil.
May universal kindness and harmlessness prevail.
May the world be healed and whole again.

:Exiting the 3-month Rains Retreat.🙏
October 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM