Theravadin Resource guide

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  • Theravadin Resource Guide

    The goal of the Theravadin Resource Guide is to produce an easy
    reference directory of Theravadin and Early Buddhism resources on the
    internet. Where there is practical application to the Theravadin
    practitioner, Mahayana based links will be included. It is the
    compiler’s hopes that this resource will include many contributions by
    other members of the site and thus any bias on my part will be
    minimized, however it is inevitable that some bias towards resources
    will remain, and for that I apologise.


    Please let me know if any links are dead, or have moved. Also if you
    feel there is a website that should be added to the Resource Guide,
    please just let me know here in this thread or via pm. The Resource
    guide will be periodically updated to include new websites and or
    fix/remove dead links.



    Dhamma search engine

    • Google Saffron - Theravada search engine, searching Dhamma pages across the web for the information you need.

    Tipitaka and Discourse

    • Access to Insight - Large collection of English translations of Suttas, and many essays from esteemed Buddhist writers.
    • Sutta Central - A
      fantastic site including collections of translations of Suttas, not
      just of the Pali Canon but also of the Chinese Agamas, Sanskrit and the
      Tibetan texts, of great interest is the inclusion of suggestion of
      parallels between Pali suttas and their Agama counterparts. Now includes
      access to the Vinaya pitakas.
    • Metta net - Includes a work in progress translation of the Tipitaka, articles by Buddhist writers and information on Sri Lankan Buddhism.
    • Wikipitaka - A wiki based work in progress translation of the Tipitaka, currently over 700 suttas have been translated.
    • Tipitaka.org - Online Burmese Tipitaka in Pali, various scripts, includes a very thorough exposition on “the gist” of the Tipitaka.
    • eTipitaka quotation - Well organised online Pali tipitaka of the 6th Buddhist council
    • Pali Text Society Translations downloads - Large parts of the Tipitaka available online, PTS translations
    • Buddha Vacana - Quite a number of suttas available translated from the pali, also resources for learning pali.
    • Pali Canon.org - Another
      good translation project. Contains many suttas from the Canon
      translated by Ariya Zhong, Chris Burke & Alonso Martinez.

    General Dhamma

    • Buddhanet - Buddhist information network, contains an e-library, info on meditation audio, magazine, and directory of Buddhist centres
    • Aimwell - The
      Association for Insight Meditation website is run by Venerable Bhikkhu
      Pesala, and contains all his own works free for reproduction,
      translations and expositions of several important suttas, as well as a
      variety of works by esteemed Mahasi lineage teachers. Bhante is
      currently transfering his content to a new website.
    • Beyond the Net - Beyond
      the net is another great site for resources, it has a lot of audio, e
      books, and teachings by various Sri Lankan monks, as well as some stuff
      by Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi. Highly recommended
    • Dhammatalks.org - Ven. Thanissaro’s website - Don’t
      let the name fool you, this website has much more than just Dhamma
      talks by Ven. Thanissaro, various ebooks are also available on site,
      including anthologies by Ven. Thanissaro, but also Dhamma talks by
      Forest Ajahns, various Ajahn [auto]biographies, the BMC (for ordained
      members) and a variety of other Dhamma related goodies. Thoroughly
      recommended.
    • Nibbana.com - Burmese Buddhist mega site (in english, of course) contains a hefty lot of Dhamma related materials
    • Nibbanam Dhamma portal- Nibbanam
      is a resource portal, kind of similar to this, but an actual website
      with fancy javascript and all kinds of goodies including a great wee
      intro video with replete with gongs and chanting! You’re bound to find a
      few things that are missing here, especially german resources.
    • Bhavana Society -
      Bhavana Society website, the home of Bhante G(unaratana). Many
      resources available here, including information on how to get to the
      centre, ordination, audio, ebooks - Including his well known title
      ‘Mindfulness in Plain English’, all sorts of good stuff!
    • Sadhu Dhamma directory -
      Sadhu Dhamma directory is a Dhamma directory run and maintained by
      Dhammawheel member Dmytro, he has worked hard to make the list very
      inclusive, and it has many good links that are not yet available here,
      so it is well worth checking out.





    Specific Dhamma

    • The Nibbana Sermons - Venerable
      Nyanananda’s revolutionary Nibbana Sermons have struck a chord with
      Theravadin practitioners across the globe, receiving praise at large -
      especially here at Dhamma Wheel.
    • Forest Sangha Publications - Forest
      Sangha Publications are dedicated to the free distribution of Ajahn
      Chah and disciples teachings, you can access audio and ebooks on site,
      or request to be sent out hard copies to your address.
    • Nanavira Thera Dhamma page - An
      existential approach to the Dhamma. Ven. Nyanavira was an English monk
      who lived in Sri Lanka, he wrote a book entitled Notes on Dhamma which
      he intended to provide certain clarifications on the Suttas, especially
      because he considered the commentarial ‘Mahavihara’ tradition to have
      made some serious errors in their interpretations of important doctrinal
      points such as Paticcasamupada and Sankhara. It is certainly an
      interesting and rewarding read for those who are intrigued by different
      approaches to Dependent Origination than the commentarial edition, the
      website has recently received an huge overhaul.
    • Path Press blog/website -Website
      and blog of the Path Press, established by Samanera Bodhesako as an
      organisation to disseminate the writings of Ven. Nyanavira Thera, it has
      since grown into a vehicle for the Nyanavirian message, the website
      contains various essays, articles a few translations of Suttas e.g. the
      Atthakavaga of the Sutta Nipata, Ven. Nyanamoli Thera’s original draft
      of his Majjhima Nikaya translation and also (and quite importantly) the writings of Ven. Samanera Bodhesako
      .
    • Ian Andrew’s recommendations and reading list - Dhamma Wheel member IanAnd gives us an important list of doctrinal points and Dhamma books to further one’s understanding.
    • Michael Kewley’s Dhamma site - Dhamma-site of teacher Michael Kewley, includes audio, video and a good bio



    Dhamma E-books

    • What-Buddha-Taught - Extensive collection of e books from contemporary meditation masters and Dhamma teachers
    • BuddhaSasana - Hidden
      in the recesses of Buddhanet is this hefty collection of articles and
      e-books on Dhamma and meditation, well deserved of it’s own description.
    • Buddhist Publication Society - Well
      known and highly regarded, the Buddhist Publication Society founded in
      1958 has been a bastion of light in producing Buddhist texts for the
      world at large, the website has a broad library of online reading material available including much of their ‘The Wheel’ and ‘Bodhi leaves’ Buddhist Journals.
    • Forest Dhamma books - E-library of the writings of Luang Por Maha Boowa
    • Santipada - A collection of Bhante Sujato’s books available for download in epub/pdf or order of paperback.
    • Holybooks - Buddhism -Holybooks is an ebook repository and has a decent Buddhism section.

    Dhamma audio

    • Dharma Seed - Dharma
      seed has been around since the 1980’s providing talks by way of tapes
      and cds, with the advent of the internet they have brought a vast amount
      of Dhamma talks online, specializing in Vipassana.
    • Dhammatalks.org.uk - A large collection of talks given by various teachers within the Thai Forest tradition in the Ajahn Chah lineage
    • Buddhist Society of Western Australia - The
      BSWA has an abundant supply of Dhammatalks given by Ajahn Brahmavamso
      and fellow monks and nuns residing at Bodhinyana and Dhammasara forest
      monasteries
    • Audiodharma - Talks given by Gil Fronsdal, and guest speakers at the Insight meditation centre in Redwood City, California
    • Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu @ dhammatalks.org - A website dedicated to talks given by Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu, also includes books and essays
    • Birken collection - Birken
      Forest Monastery are maintaining a collection of over 3000 Dhamma talks
      (over 45gb) available for download at their website
    • Dhammaweb - Site
      featuring talks from the Burmese and Thai traditions, many in Burmese,
      but also many in English, good source of some hard to find talks.
    • Bhavana Society - Talks given by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (of Mindfulness in plain English renown)
    • Aruno - Talks given by Ajahn Munindo, Ajahn Abhinando and Ajahn Puรฑรฑo from Aruna Ratanagiri
    • Introduction to Buddhism - Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi delivers 10 lectures as an introduction to Buddhism
    • Majjhima Nikaya lectures - Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi delivers lectures on the Majjhima Nikaya (the middle length discourses) of the Pali Canon.
    • Ayya Khema Dhamma talks - Talks
      by the wonderful Ayya Khema. She is a brilliant orator, and her talks
      are available on the website for download, including a torrent for the
      entire 7.6 gigs of the site.
    • Bhavana Society’s Dhamma talks - Talks given at the Bhavana Society. Many talks by Bhante Gunaratana of ‘Mindfulness in plain english’ fame.



    Dhamma-video

    • Dhammatube - Dhammatube has an wide range of Dhamma-video available for viewing on Youtube, Google video and Veoh.
    • Dhammaweb video database - In a similar refrain to their audio section, Dhammaweb bring a collection of Dhamma videos from various speakers.
    • BBC: The Life of the Buddha - An inspiring documentary on the early life of the Buddha by the BBC.

    Important Dhamma-wheel topics

    Dhamma encyclopedias and wikipedia pages of note

    News and Journalism

    • Buddhist Channel.tv - The
      Buddhist Channel is a news source website for news articles that relate
      to Buddhism or present news stories from a Buddhist angle.
    • Tricycle - Tricycle
      is perhaps one of the most well known Buddhist publications, bringing
      you all manner of articles on faith and practice, and life in general
      from both Mahayanic and Theravadin perspectives.
    • The Buddha Dharma Quarterly - The
      Buddha Dharma is the online edition of the quarterly magazine produced
      by Shambala (Tibetan) but intended for a general Buddhist audience,
      while many articles are written from a Mahayana perspective there is
      quite a lot of valuable general Buddhist content contained within.

    Dhamma Apps for Android & iOS

    • Insight Timer (Android - Free version), Insight Timer (Apple iOS - Free version) - Insight
      Timer is a great app for using while meditating, it has some beautiful
      bell sounds to start and end the session, and there can be interval
      bells too the time and length of which you can adjust for each. It is
      very multifaceted, collecting metrics on your meditation sessions e.g.
      graphs on time over days, weeks, months. Longest time spent meditating,
      average session length etc. It also has a social aspect, one which a
      number of us here at DW use.
    • Access To Insight (Android), Access To Insight (Apple iOS) - Access
      To Insight comes to your mobile device in offline mode, allowing you to
      access all of the Sutta translations, articles, essays and books
      available on the website using your Android or iOS device. A Brilliant
      app for when you’ve run out of data or outside the range of a wifi
      point.
    • Buddhist chant 1 (Android) - This
      App has Pali Sutta chanting, 17 in all, includes the text with the
      audio so you can chant along too. Contains all the common Pujas, no
      parittas as of yet it would seem, see the link for full list.

    Dhamma blogs

    • Theravadin - Blog by an anonymous practitioner, a lot of good stuff crops up here
    • Sujato’s Blog - Venerable Sujato’s blog, posts on reform of Theravada and Bhikkhuni ordination
    • Bhikkhu’s blog - Blog by Ajahn Punnadhammo, covers a wide range of issues
    • Path press blog - Blog of the Path Press, includes the writings of Ven. Nanavira Thera, Ven. Bodhisako and Sister Vajira.
    • Dhamma Musings - Blog of Ven. Shravasti Dhammika, a long standing and well known monk, he is an author of serveral books on Buddhism.
    • Genkaku again - Adam Genkaku Fisher’s blog, Dhammawheel member and Zen practitioner since ages ago.
    • Jayarava’s Raves - Jayarava
      is a member of the Triratna Buddhist order (formerly FWBO) he has
      knowledge of pali, and a very strong interest in Dhamma, especially with
      how it fits into our modern world.

    Misc


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    “For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher’s message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
    The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I.” - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta



    Path Press - ร‘ฤแน‡avฤซra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli’s Dhamma talks


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    by BlackBird ยป Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:52 am

    Righto, lest my browser crash, i’m posting what I’ve done so far, will revise again soon.


    To add:
    - General Dhamma sites eg. Buddhanet, Aimwell, Nibbanadotnet
    - Specialist Dhamma sites eg. Nibbana Sermons, Pathpress etc
    - Important blogs eg. Theravadin
    - Discussion sites
    - Misc


    metta
    Jack
    “For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher’s message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
    The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I.” - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta



    Path Press - ร‘ฤแน‡avฤซra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli’s Dhamma talks

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    by Laurens ยป Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:54 pm

    Nice work :)



    http://www.aruno.org - there’s some audio teachings there too, if you wanted to add it to the list?

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    “If only it were all so simple! If
    only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
    and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and
    destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart
    of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own
    heart?”


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    by appicchato ยป Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:46 pm

    Looking very good Jack… :thumbsup:
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    by DNS ยป Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:43 pm

    May I suggest, also:



    General Dhamma and Encyclopedias

    • Dhamma Wiki - Theravada Buddhist encyclopedia with over 10,000 articles and links.
    • Buddhism A to Z - A Buddhist encyclopedia with over 500 entries by Ven. Dhammika, focusing on the Pali Canon and early teachings of Buddhism.

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    Reason: corrected Buddhism A to Z link and number of articles at Dhamma Wiki

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    by Laurens ยป Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:07 pm

    http://forestsangha.org/ - “a portal page to the communities associated with Ven. Ajahn Chah”



    :smile:
    “If only it were all so simple! If
    only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
    and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and
    destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart
    of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own
    heart?”


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    by BlackBird ยป Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:22 pm

    Sounds good, will set a side an hour after I get home from work tonight.
    “For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher’s message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
    The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I.” - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta



    Path Press - ร‘ฤแน‡avฤซra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli’s Dhamma talks
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    by Assaji ยป Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:24 am

    Hi Jack,


    Thank you! I’ve used your description for one new link at Sadhu! directory.


    Metta, Dmytro

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    by Laurens ยป Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:18 pm

    Just as a random useful thing:



    http://www.jetcityorange.com/meditation/timer/ - An online meditation timer which you can set to go off after 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 45 or 60 minutes
    “If only it were all so simple! If
    only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
    and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and
    destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart
    of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own
    heart?”


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    by Ben ยป Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:36 pm

    Nice work jack!
    โ€œNo lists of things to be done. The
    day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later.
    All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart
    have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.โ€
    - Cormac McCarthy, The Road


    Learn this from the waters:
    in mountain clefts and chasms,
    loud gush the streamlets,
    but great rivers flow silently.
    - Sutta Nipata 3.725



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    by IanAnd ยป Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:46 pm

    NIce thread, Blackbird.


    I’ve posted the following on two different forums to help direct people
    to relevant readings that may help them begin to put the pieces of the
    puzzle together. Perhaps some here will benefit also from this reading
    list.


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    Apropos of some recent posts here in question of explanations about the
    Dhamma, I thought to put together a brief reading list of books which
    might help the poor old sod struggling to make out what the Dhamma is
    teaching, despite all the complex archaic commentarial literature there
    is to read and to figure out.


    At one point in my training, I came to the “realization” that reading
    and contemplating anything other than the direct words of the Buddha
    (read that as: books other than the translations of the Pali canon) was
    for me at that time a waste of my time. I therefore put down any outside
    reading I was then doing and shifted my focus to the discourses of the
    Buddha. What I had realized was that I really had no way of verifying
    what others (in their books and essays) were espousing that the Buddha
    taught because I hadn’t yet finished reading the discourses themselves.
    There were questions that I had which were cleared up during the course
    of that exercise in reading and contemplation of the discourses, as well
    as other questions which resulted (arose) from that same reading. I’ve
    spent a great deal of time in study, contemplation, and observation of
    my own practice experience in getting to the point I’m at today, and it
    hasn’t always been an easy or smooth journey. What I can say, though, is
    that if one has a practice in meditation and is willing to wade through
    all the discourses and a few modern commentarial books, one stands a
    chance of being able to begin making some sense of this thing called the
    Dhamma.


    It took a good two years to go through the Digha Nikaya, Majjhima
    Nikaya, and the anthology of the Anguttara Nikaya that I had obtained.
    It took over a year to undertake and complete a reading of the Samyutta
    Nikaya, which is some 2000 pages in Bhikkhu Bodhi’s translation,
    including stopping to read and understand the relevant footnotes in each
    of these volumes, of which there are many. This may look and sound like
    some kind of Chinese torture test, until one realizes that there
    actually is some light at the end of the
    tunnel waiting for one to discover it. All that reading, study,
    contemplation, and meditation eventually paid off, because I was able to
    say at the end of it all that I had read and understood from my own
    experience of it what the Buddha taught according to its presentation in
    the Theravada tradition, which I believe to be the closest to the
    original teachings as they were spoken.


    The main teachings to focus on coming to understand and realize are the following:


    1. The Four Noble Truths


    2. The Noble Eightfold Path


    3. The Five Aggregates (this is especially important for insight into beginning to understand the teaching of anatta)


    4. The Three Characteristics of Existence (also known as the tilakkhana or anicca, dukkha, and anatta)


    5. Dependent Co-Arising (or Dependent Origination โ€” paticca-samuppada)


    Other important teachings to become aware of during the course of practice include:


    1. The Five Hindrances (especially as they pertain to meditation โ€”
    sensuous lust, aversion and ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and
    worry, and skeptical doubt)


    2. The Seven Factors of Enlightenment (these also as they pertain to the
    meditation technology โ€” of mindfulness, investigation of states,
    energy, rapture, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity)


    3. The Five Spiritual Faculties (the Indriyas โ€” of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom)


    4. The Ten Fetters of Existence (as they relate to the path and the
    fruit of the path: self delusion, doubt, clinging to ritual and
    observances, sensuous lust, ill will, greed for fine material existence,
    greed for immaterial existence, conceit, restlessness, and ignorance)


    As for the books themselves, the four main Nikayas are as follows:



    The Long Discourses of the Buddha, The Digha Nikaya, trans. by Maurice Walshe.



    The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, The Majjhima Nikaya, trans. by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi.



    The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya, translated and edited by Nyanaponika Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi.



    The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, The Samyutta Nikaya, trans. by Bhikkhu Bodhi.


    Select volumes from the Khuddhaka Nikaya (The Shorter Collection of Discourses) which can be very helpful to understanding are:



    The Udana & The Itivuttaka, trans. by John D. Ireland



    The Sutta Nipata, trans. by H. Saddhatissa



    The Dhammapada, trans. by Narada Thera


    Other modern commentarial books include:



    The Great Discourse on Causation, The Mahanidana Sutta and Its Commentaries, Introduction and translation from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi



    The All-Embracing Net of Views, The Brahmajala Sutta and Its Commentaries, Introduction and translation from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi



    The Root of Existence, The Mulapariyaya Sutta and Its Commentaries, Introduction and translation from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi



    The Noble Eightfold Path, Way to the End of Suffering, by Bhikkhu Bodhi



    Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought, by Bhikkhu Nanananda



    The Magic of the Mind, An Exposition of the Kalakarama Sutta, by Bhikkhu Nanananda



    The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, by Nyanaponika Thera



    Satipatthana, The Direct Path to Realization, by Ven. Analayo



    What the Buddha Taught, by Walpola Rahula


    For some insightful scholarly and academic books, the first three listed
    here are very helpful in understanding about the aggregates and anatta:



    The Five Aggregates: Understanding Theravada Psychology and Soteriology, by Mathieu Boisvert. Also can be found here when in stock.



    Identity and Experience, The Constitution of the Human being According to early Buddhism, by Sue Hamilton



    Selfless Persons, by Steven Collins



    How Buddhism Began, The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings, by Richard Gombrich
    “The gift of truth exceeds all other gifts” โ€” Dhammapada, v. 354 Craving XXIV
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    by BlackBird ยป Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:47 pm

    Thank you Ian, always enjoy reading your posts. I’ll link this post to the OP, in case viewers don’t read down this far :)


    Also hope to get a bit of a blogroll section going today, just got a bit of work to do first.


    Edit: Just spend the last half hour on an update, hit ctrl+r instead of
    ctrl+t and lost everything… I’m never using IE again, from now on it’s
    SRware Iron all the way :D


    metta
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    “For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher’s message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
    The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I.” - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta



    Path Press - ร‘ฤแน‡avฤซra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli’s Dhamma talks
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    by Cittasanto ยป Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:54 am

    here is my teachers site, he has just started a
    blog on their not sure if it is going to be weekly or monthly as both
    have been mentioned, in our discussions.



    http://www.puredhamma.org/index.php” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
    Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.


    He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His
    reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
    But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side,
    if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for
    preferring either opinion โ€ฆ

    He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them โ€ฆ he
    must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.


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    by Cittasanto ยป Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:47 pm

    http://www.chantpali.org/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;


    spme pali chanting resourses
    Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.


    He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His
    reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
    But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side,
    if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for
    preferring either opinion โ€ฆ

    He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them โ€ฆ he
    must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.

    John Stuart Mill
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    by Kim OHara ยป Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:39 pm

    BlackBird wrote:
    Edit: Just spend the last half hour on an update, hit ctrl+r instead of
    ctrl+t and lost everything… I’m never using IE again, from now on it’s
    SRware Iron all the way :D

    I have never had a high opinion of Microsoft software (not since first working on a Mac, anyway), so I’m with you on that.
    Firefox is probably the way to go for a browser, though Opera has its fans, too. No problems at all.
    If you want to go really radical for the New Year, download OpenOffice and say ‘bye, bye’ to Word, Excel and the rest. :thinking:
    OpenOffice works very well but there is are occasional problems exchanging documents with the rest of the world.
    If you want to go really really radical for the New Year, get Linux and say ‘bye, bye’ to Windows as well. :thinking: :thinking:
    But it’s good to have a friend nearby who has already done it. :tongue: