(the artist formerly known as AlexM)
How is this explained then?
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Oh Iâm very sorry. I was making a humorous reference to when Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. The media started referring to him simply as âthe artist formerly known as Princeâ because nobody could figure out how to say his new name 
As a mod recently pointed out though, humor may not carry well across cultures and is probably inappropriate for this forum so I apologise for my (accidentally) misleading speech 
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What are your interests in meditation?
Liberation. You? 
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I am an insight meditator by temperament, and follow the Satipatthana sutta as a central focus to the internal integrity of the Pali Canon. No I donât want to chat via PM.
Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu 
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May your journey bring you final liberation.
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Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!
May each year bring you a step closer to Liberation 
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Sadhu sadhu sadhu to all who continue. 
Of the other seven, were some intending a temporary period in robes? (Iâm aware that this can be a type of coming-of-age rite-of-passage in Thailand.)
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Yeah, thatâs right. We had one long-term monk disrobe after less than a month in robes (!) and the monk on the right of this photo wasnât planning on staying but did. The rest disrobed as they originally intended: after the three months of the rainy season.
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He looks soo young.
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Nothing is permanent. All things change ! . May you develop in wisdom to keep you on the right path to liberation.
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Congratulations, Khemarato Bhikkhu!
And thank you once again for showing up on our doorstep in robes of white that day not so long ago. 
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Oh psh⌠A very easy doorstep to show up at. Thank you once again for your bountiful and dependable generosity and hospitality!
Long live the Karl! 
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AN3.24:1.1: âMendicants, these three people are very helpful to another.
AN3.24:1.2: What three?
AN3.24:1.3: The person who has enabled you to go for refuge to the Buddha, the teaching, and the Saáš gha.
AN3.24:1.4: This person is very helpful to another.
AN3.24:2.1: Furthermore, the person who has enabled you to truly understand: âThis is sufferingâ ⌠âThis is the origin of sufferingâ ⌠âThis is the cessation of sufferingâ ⌠âThis is the practice that leads to the cessation of sufferingâ.
AN3.24:2.2: This person is very helpful to another.
AN3.24:3.1: Furthermore, the person who has enabled you to realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom in this very life, and live having realized it with your own insight due to the ending of defilements.
AN3.24:3.2: This person is very helpful to another.
AN3.24:3.3: These are the three people who are very helpful to another person.
AN3.24:4.1: And I say that there is no-one more helpful to another than these three people.
AN3.24:4.2: And I also say that itâs not easy to repay these three people by bowing down to them, rising up for them, greeting them with joined palms, and observing proper etiquette for them; or by providing them with robes, alms-food, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick.â
To me the people who first introduced me to the Buddhaâs teaching 35 years ago will always be very close to my heart. They always have been, even long before I came across this lovely little Sutta.
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Congratulations! 
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Congratulations. Nice picture
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