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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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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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Like a thoroughbred horse touched by the whip, be strenuous, be filled with spiritual yearning. By faith and moral purity, by effort and meditation, by investigation of the truth, by being rich in knowledge and virtue, and by being mindful, destroy this unlimited suffering.
~Dhammapada 144
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Dukkha is the state of being unable to endure. The state of being unable to endure means everything is in a constant state of change. This is a permanent truth: everything changes.
~Ven. Ajahn Anan

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November 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Once we’ve suffered enough, we might one day realize: “This really hurts. I’ve had enough of this.” That’s the first step towards peace, towards enlightenment.
~Ajahn Viradhammo

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November 25, 2025 at 11:11 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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The fruit of stream-entry is better
than being the one king of the earth,
than going to heaven,
than lordship over all the world.
~Dhammapada 178

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November 21, 2025 at 11:18 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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Only rarely is there a man in this world who, restrained by modesty, avoids reproach, as a thoroughbred horse avoids the whip.
~Dhammapada 143

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November 18, 2025 at 11:31 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 nature of the Middle Way is that if there is a need for us to engage or to use our imagination, our energy, our capacity, then we do, but we don’t have to do that in order to feel a sense of value.
~Ajahn Amaro

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November 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Speak the truth; yield not to anger; when asked, give, even if you only have a little. By these three means can one reach the presence of the gods.
~Dhammapada 224

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November 15, 2025 at 11:37 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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Let a man guard himself against irritability in speech; let him be controlled in speech. Abandoning verbal misconduct, let him practice good conduct in speech.
~Dhammapada 232

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November 6, 2025 at 11:08 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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Our teacher, Ajahn Chah, taught us to practice with integrity. It means doing the right thing, whether you are alone or with others. You know what you do, even if no one else sees you.
~Ajahn Kalyano

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October 22, 2025 at 10:36 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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And what is the treasure of discernment/wisdom?

There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones is discerning, endowed with discernment of arising and passing away—noble, penetrating, leading to the right ending of stress.
~AN7.6

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October 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM