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BSPG News and Meeting (No. 202)
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News
Please note that the meeting this week will be held at Room 237 of the Student Union.Meeting
Thursday, 11/14/2002, 7pm to 8:30pm
Room 237, Student Union
Please be on time!Words from the Suttas/Sutras
"Master your words.
Master your thoughts.
Never allow your body to do harm.
Follow these three roads with
purity
And you will find yourself upon the
one way,
The way of wisdom."
-- DhammapadaQuote of the Week
"In Buddhism. meditation on death is important in the context of the matter-of-fact expectation of limitless lives and the sense of the possibility to transform our mind while evolving through those lives. The time of this life with liberty and opportunity becomes very impotant, actually the most precious time; wasting such a lifetime is a great tragedy. So we concentrate and meditate on death and impermanence until we powerfully feel that our precious lives with liberty and opportunity might get wasted if we don't practice. In this case, since through ultimate wisdom you can attain ultimate freedom and even the exalted state of Buddhahood, you are energized by meditation on impermanence and death. Otherwise. just to do it in a materialist context might just make someone feel demoralized."--The 14th Dalai lama.
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