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Ajahn Nisabho, Bhante Sumitta, and Ajahn Kovilo at the Black Sun in Volunteer Park, Seattle

#theravada #buddhism #monk #sangha

Today make a different choice, be unpredictable. #happiness #peace

“Yes, you can call it a religion, and that might be accurate, but it’s more useful to think of Theravada Buddhism as a skill.”

Every day take a moment to intentionally do some good, no matter how trivial it might seem. You and the whole world can only benefit.

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Walk For Peace - Day 29 (11/23/25) - Google My Maps For daily updates of the journey, please visit: http://fb.com/walkforpeaceusa

I found this in case it’s helpful: walkforpeace.short.gy/map

Four Noble Truths | ebook on dhammatalks.org Four Noble Truths by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, available in EPUB, Kindle, PDF, audiobook, and Kobo formats. An introduction to the Buddha’s central teaching, the four noble truths, explaining them in the co...

Another resource: www.dhammatalks.org/books/FourNo...

Unfortunately it appears their video updates might only be available via FB. I did not realize those links won’t display content for non-FB users, my apologies.

Roadside interview with monks on walk for peace.

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Give peace of mind a try.

Seriously, anything that is sticking, like resentment, anger, sadness, fear, please just see what it feels like to stare it in the face and let it know you just don’t want to participate anymore. These states of mind are fleeting and impermanent. Sometimes we don’t even know why they happened.

“We have to learn how to listen instead of react.”

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We work with what presents in this mind-body framework, no speculation or fantasy, just this manifest reality, just as it is, yathābhūta. Anything else is an unhelpful distraction.

It’s an inspiring practice of devotion and mindfulness. Thanks for sharing the photo!

How to Practice Tonglen Meditation Pema Chödrön teaches us Tonglen, “sending and taking,” an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion.

“In tonglen practice, we visualize taking in the pain of others with every in-breath and sending out whatever will benefit them on the out-breath. In the process, we become liberated from age- old patterns of selfishness.”

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Buddhist monks resume 2,300-mile walk for peace after accident near Houston A group of Buddhist monks is continuing a 2,300-mile walk across the U.S. to promote peace after two were injured in a traffic accident near Houston.

“We kindly ask everyone to continue keeping the monks in your thoughts and prayers as healing begins and the journey toward peace continues.”

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AN 4:31 Wheels | Cakka Sutta | sutta on dhammatalks.org Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon

“If you dwell in a civilized place,
make friends with the noble ones,
rightly direct yourself,
and have made merit in the past,
there will roll to you
crops, wealth, status, honor,
& happiness.”

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To be left with nothing is a most incredible proposition, far more implausible than being in possession of a wealth of this or that. Even monks have their robe and alms bowl. Possessing much, or less, can any claim to have nothing? In the midst of abundant possessions, is nothing to be found?

May our minds be inclined to protection in wholesome endeavors. #Dharma #Dhamma

2 Buddhist monks hurt in crash on highway near Dayton, police say A truck struck a vehicle that was escorting a group of monks on a peace walk across the country.

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Thag 1:1 Subhūti | sutta on dhammatalks.org Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon

My hut is roofed, comfortable,
free of drafts;
my mind, well-centered,
released.
I remain ardent.
So, rain-deva.
Go ahead & rain.

Thag 1:1 Subhūti

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What need for a well
if there were waters always?
Having cut craving
by the root,
one would go about searching
for what?

"Udapāna Sutta: The Well" (Ud 7.9), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 3 September 2012, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

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“Eradicate the latent tendency of craving using pleasant sensations (by equanimous observation of the pleasant sensations understanding their changing nature), eradicate latent tendency of aversion using unpleasant sensations and eradicate the latent tendency of ignorance using neutral sensations.”

People are essentially unreasonable, needing just the slightest little provocation as an excuse to overreact dramatically. Knowing this, strive not to lose the balance of your mind just because others may be so miserable. Their gift rejected remains with them.

Could you please elaborate on the functions of hiri and ottappa in this context? Thank you.

“Dharma is nothing but a pure science, a super-science of mind and matter: the interaction of mind and matter, the cross-currents and the under-currents happening deep inside every moment.”

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“Sectarianism is divisive. Dharma is universal: it unites.”

- S.N. Goenka