Objectives for this blog

I started this blog as a way for me to organize my understandings and thoughts with regards to the Buddha's teaching (Dharma). Sometimes, we need to take stock of what we had learned/accumulated, re-organize/categorize them for ease of use and clear away stuff that are irrelevant or useless. Hopefully, by doing so I can avoid a situation where it is one step forward and two steps back.

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