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**indentKew** · 05-07-2011, 01:06 AM

I have spent time reading and learning about the Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path and the Five Precepts but I don't really know much beyond that other than my own personal meditation (which I am really still learning at, I find it hard to clear my head of thoughts!). It's been interesting to read about things like Dhamma which I hadn't even heard of before. I hope that over the summer when I have more time (I am currently finishing off my studying for this year) I will be able to look into things like that in more detail. For now though I am quite happy just continuing with my own "practice" if you could really call it that!

One thing I have found is that it is easy to want to be told how is best to do things, but really with Buddhism having a teacher isn't the important thing because the learning has to be done internally by yourself.

05-07-2011, 01:06 AM	#16
indentKew Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	I have spent time reading and learning about the Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path and the Five Precepts but I don't really know much beyond that other than my own personal meditation (which I am really still learning at, I find it hard to clear my head of thoughts!). It's been interesting to read about things like Dhamma which I hadn't even heard of before. I hope that over the summer when I have more time (I am currently finishing off my studying for this year) I will be able to look into things like that in more detail. For now though I am quite happy just continuing with my own "practice" if you could really call it that! One thing I have found is that it is easy to want to be told how is best to do things, but really with Buddhism having a teacher isn't the important thing because the learning has to be done internally by yourself.
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