It's Been a Long Time (sutra)

Maurice O'C. Walshe, "Great Discourse on the Lineage" (DN 14); Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly The Buddha-to-come (Ragg Burns Imaging)Thus have I heard. Once the Buddha was staying at Savatthi, in Anathapindika’s Park in Jeta’s Grove, in the Kareri hutment.    And among a number of monastics who had gathered together after their meal, after gathering alms, sitting in the Kareri Pavilion, there arose a serious discussion on past lives. They said: "This is how it was in a past life!" "That...

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"Dharma Maps" at Against the Stream

What is enlightenment? Bodhi, in Pāli and Sanskrit, is often translated as “enlightenment.”     A better translation might be “to awake, become aware, notice, know, understand.” What does it mean to become awake? How do I wake up, become enlightened?    Dharma maps are descriptions of the path to enlightenment, strategies, step-by-step guides for organizing insight practice toward the (non) goal of enlightenment.    There many such maps, perhaps as...

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Scientist: Evolution debate will end soon

NEW YORK (AP) - Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that "even the skeptics can accept it.""If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it's solid, that we are all African, that color is superficial, that stages of development of culture...

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