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DGA
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Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
Malcolm
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DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
That wears off…welcome back, I think?
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Welcome back
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Malcolm wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:17 am
DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
That wears off…welcome back, I think?
We'll be back to the same arguments. LOL

Welcome back!
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
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Kim O'Hara
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DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
Welcome back :hi:

If nine and a half thousand posts only count as 'pretty active', most of us are just occasional drop-ins. :tongue:
You're actually still in the top ten posters of all time, according to the member list at https://www.dharmawheel.net/memberlist. ... memberlist, in spite of leaving us for a couple of years.

:namaste:
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Everyone comes back. :tongue:

Welcome back!

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Welcome back!
Shaun :namaste:
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DNS wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 3:05 pm Everyone comes back. :tongue:

It’s the pull of being around like minded people
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DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
Hey DGA,

Hope everything is good!
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DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
Wow, good to see you back, was just wondering what happened to you the other day.
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Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad

Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs

Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared

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DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
Welcome back! I think you're from before my time, but I've definitely seen your name here and there in old posts.
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D to the G to the A Walcome back!
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Konchog Thogme Jampa wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:15 pm
DNS wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 3:05 pm Everyone comes back. :tongue:

It’s the pull of being around like minded people
I've been living in a small town, and I'm finally getting lonely.
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Queequeg wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:28 am
Malcolm wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:17 am
DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
That wears off…welcome back, I think?
We'll be back to the same arguments. LOL

Welcome back!
Nah. I swore off that nonsense!
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Kim O'Hara wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:30 am
DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
Welcome back :hi:

If nine and a half thousand posts only count as 'pretty active', most of us are just occasional drop-ins. :tongue:
You're actually still in the top ten posters of all time, according to the member list at https://www.dharmawheel.net/memberlist. ... memberlist, in spite of leaving us for a couple of years.

:namaste:
Kim
yikes, I really needed a hobby
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明安 Myoan
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Post by 明安 Myoan »

Nice to see you again. Also trying to be more active here myself. Dharma Wheel archives Buddhist information and resources differently than other sites, which is useful for other people sometimes.

See you around!
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Johnny Dangerous wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:54 pm
DGA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:15 am Hi Everyone,

I was pretty active at DharmaWheel for a long time, and then I wasn't for a couple years. But I think I'm back again? What am I doing?

I'm thankful DharmaWheel is here and I'm happy to be participating
Wow, good to see you back, was just wondering what happened to you the other day.
Here's what happened.

In the fall of 2018, my wife was pregnant with our second child and some complications arose. I had a terrible commute and we were not going to make it economically in the city where we were living with another kid. We were going to sink and I was working hard to get us the hell out of there, applying for jobs and whatnot. That December, I finally succeeded, and got the opportunity to work and live much, much closer to home and much, much more affordably.

After our daughter was born, my wife almost died--twice. It's been 2 and a half years and her health still isn't 100% right. So for a while, I was supporting our household on one salary, raising two small children, caring for a sick spouse, and running the household. My mother-in-law was there for us for many of those months, but she had her own challenges and sometimes I had to care for her, too.

That went on for a while. We're doing better now. But as far as I can see, I'm the only Dharma person within maybe an hour's drive. that's good for a while but now it's becoming a drag. So here I am, rock you like a hurricane and whatnot
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Malcolm wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:06 pm
I missed you, Malcolm.
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Thank you everyone for the kind words.

Oh, one more thing: My dad's fighting stage 4 cancer. he lives a little over three hours away, if you haul ass through the Columbia Gorge. His girlfriend is caring for him, BUT now she has an aggressive cancer going on too, so she's getting a pretty invasive surgery on Monday. So I'll be in Portland caring for the both of them for a while.

Anyway, that's a sample of life's rich pageant. That's what I've been doing with my life of late.
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