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How to offer food in Buddhism?
In our house, we offer flowers, tea, water to Lord Buddha for morning and evening. We offer food mostly rice & curry or whatever we eat for lunch before we eat around 11.30AM—12PM. Simplest way to ...
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What comes first: effort or motivation?
First, you must have Right View (samma ditthi), so that when you have the effort, it will be the Right Effort and when you have the resolve, it will be the Right Resolve. Without Right View, you will ...
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What comes first: effort or motivation?
In the standard Buddhist model there are "desire" and "aversion". Sometimes there are both desire and aversion at the same time.
For example, desire to get something and aversion ...
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