EDIT: Sorry all, this is ABAYA posting. I haven't made this mistake in a while, mostly because ktspktsp and I had different forum skins and we knew who was who. But since the new version we haven't switched back.
Sorry again; feel free to move/delete/rename.
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Originally Posted by CoachAlan
Eventually, as I discussed in an earlier post, the things you're learning will force you to start looking in, and that's when the real progress begins. No temple is needed for that.
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Very refreshing to hear this... and that's what I love about Buddhism. Thanks for the reminder.
Of course, my mother is Thai and I spent a lot of time in Theravada temples around our area when I was a kid, so I do feel at home in them... perhaps even moreso than in a Christian church (where I spent my teen years). I think that one thing the temple is good for is community... having a body of people who share similar beliefs. I've seen the ways in which my mother and her family have benefited from the structure and community in the local temple, and I respect that.
Then again, my kind of community is a diverse one, with people from all different backgrounds/religions/philosophies, so TFP is more of a "temple" for me than any building could be.
