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  4👑☸  →  EBpedia📚  →  4bv☮️    4bv☮️: brahma-vihāra : 4 divine-dwellings. This story, takes a few minutes to read, should really inspire your mudita practice.   excerpt from new york times  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/davyon-johnson-student-saves-classmate-fire.html?searchResultPosition=1 A 6th Grader Saves the Lives of Two People on the Same Day Davyon Johnson, 11, has been honored for his Dec. 9 interventions but says he doesn’t understand the attention he’s drawn. It was “the right thing to do,” he said.       By Eduardo Medina  Dec. 26, 2021 Davyon Johnson, 11, couldn’t quite understand it: the pizza party, the accolades from the mayor of Muskogee, Okla., his picture in the newspaper and on television — and the word that had been linked to his name: hero.  Why, the sixth grader asked his mother, was he being rewarded for doing the right thing? “I told him, ‘You saved two people’s lives,’” said LaToya Johnson, Davyon’s mother. “‘That is special.’” And so began a whirlw

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  Re: non-hungry gosts Report Quote Unread post   by  Kusala  »  Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:16 am devaloka  wrote:  ↑ Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:18 pm Often people with (real) paranormal abilities can speak to the death and see ghosts roaming on earth Are all ghosts on earth hungry ghosts?  What about normal ghosts of deceased individuals ? Skip to   42:13 - 50:00   ... another interesting ghost story at @ 50:33 - 54:40

  (note difference between  attha, aṭṭha) and connection to the Dhamma. : Attha 1  (also aṭṭha, especially in combinations mentioned under 3) (masculine and neuter) [Vedic artha from r̥, arti and r̥ṇoti to reach, attain or to proceed (to or from), thus originally result (or cause), profit, attainment. Cf. semantically French chose, Latin causa 1. interest, advantage, gain; (moral) good, blessings welfare; profit, prosperity, well-being M I 111 (atthassa ninnetar, of the Buddha, bringer of good); S IV 94 (the same); S I 34 (attano a. one's own welfare), 55 (the same) 86, 102, 126 = A II 46 (atthassa patti); S I 162 (attano ca parassa ca); II 222 (the same); IV 347 (°ṃ bhañjati destroy the good or welfare, always with musāvādena by lying, cf. attha-bhañjanaka); A I 61 (°ṃ anubhoti to fare well, to have a (good) result); III 364 (samparāyika a. profit in the future life); V 223 f.  (anattho ca attho ca detriment and profit); It 44 (v.l. attā better); Snp  {21}  37, 58 (= Nidd II 26, w

  4👑☸  →  EBpedia📚  →  a-subha 🧟   also see:  🔗 🏦 Bank of Asubha : collection of helpful materials (warning: graphic images) click away from this article if you're squeamish and not ready to experience some full on visual asubha. Why did I reformat his excellent booklet when you can get the original PDF source here? https://birken.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ajahn-Sona-Cemetary-Contemplations.pdf 1. I wanted to line up the 14 photos with the descriptions of each stage next to them, instead of flipping back and forth. 2. To PDF book makers, please read: free Dhamma book makers, please make EPUB versions: PDF's are a horrendous nuisance to read (this blog post is plain html, easily converts into epub) Cemetery Contemplations Venerable Bhikkhu Sona Cemetery Contemplations,  Venerable Bhikkhu Sona Written at the Pemberton Forest Monastery, 1996.  Photos on pages 22 & 23 by Brian Calkins Layout by Andrea Schmidt.  Printed in Canada, 2010  Cemetery Contemplations 3     The