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Angulimala: A Story of the Power of Compassion
On: 2006-05-14 14:27:26 || Posted by: siddhant || Category: Buddhism
As told by Ven. Walpola Piyananda Thera in Love in Buddhism) There was once the son of a Brahmin (the highest "priestly" caste in India) in the court of King Pasenadi of Kosala, whose name was Ahimsaka. He was sent to Taxila for his studies. Ahimsaka was intelligent and obedient to this teacher; therefore he was liked by both the teacher and his wife. This made the other pupils jealous of him. So they went to the teacher and falsely accused Ahimsaka of having an immoral relationship with

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a story
On: 2006-03-28 12:45:07 || Posted by: siddhant || Category: Others
that’s actually from the internet, so many of your listeners will probably know that one, but it’s a good story. There was a lecturer at a university who was showing just how broad his wisdom was, and instead of reading out his lecture notes one morning, he came with a big jar and put it on his desk. And while everybody in his class was wondering what he was up to, he started to put in some stones from a bag, one by one, into the jar until he could get no more in. And once he could get no more stones into his jar, he asked his class ‘Is the jar full?’ and the class said, ‘Yes, it is.’

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so you think its all peace and love?????
On: 2006-04-18 14:18:13 || Posted by: yahoo rob || Category: Hippy
This is really just to play devils advocate .... think at present this site needs a bit of that...this is a dialogue below... its better with pics but maybe it works.... !!!!

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From Wisdom to Realization
On: 2006-11-02 03:32:59 || Posted by: mukesh || Category: Others
God has sent Wisdom with you. Wisdom is your friend. Wisdom plays with Desire and by their unlawful contact they gave birth to Mind. This Mind marries a girl named Chapalata or Restlessness and by this he got the five senses. This Mind has got another wife too whose name is Hope and by this second wife he got two sons namely Anger and Greed.

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moving mind
On: 2006-08-06 13:32:52 || Posted by: siddhant || Category: Others
Two men were arguing about a flag flapping in the wind. "It's the wind that is really moving," stated the first one. "No, it is the flag that is moving," contended the second. A Zen master, who happened to be walking by, overheard the debate and interrupted them. "Neither the flag nor the wind is moving," he said, "It is MIND that moves."

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