Hello friends these are the new web pages posted to the GWV website. On Self-Ordination, taking the title Sotapanna (Stream Winner), beginning a new Vehicle of...
Hello friends, a sincere contemplative inspired me to generate a first draft of a study guide for the study of the Buddha's Discourses. I regrettably cannot...
Dear friends, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate all of the things that you all do for the dharma. And, I wanted to than-you for your kind and ...
Hello friends here are some new web pages posted to the GWV website. There is now a web page of links to our supporters. If you belong to an organization that...
Dear Friends, The following conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama may be of interest to you. IMS teachers Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield are...
Upon request I composed a critique of the teaching of jhana. That critique has been composed upon, but it is a bit too large to post here, so it has been...
Hello friends, here are new webpages for your study of Buddhism and the contemplative life: The first full revision of the GWV Contemplative's Pali-English, ...
ecstasy n., pl. ecstasies. 1. Intense joy or delight. 2. A state of emotion so intense that one is carried beyond rational thought and self-control: an ecstasy...
Hello friends, it is a pleasure to have your virtual company while on this solo wilderness retreat. It is an inspiration to know that the study, insights and...
Engage in meditation in the way the mystics did, such as Siddhartha Gotama, John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, Saints: Anthony, Vitus, Francis of Assisi and...
Hello friends here are more web pages in service to the contemplative community: Understanding the Unwholesome States, The Darkness of the Dark Night ...
Hello friends of the GWV. I have been waiting near Bishop, CA for someone to arrive who is interested in attending my winter retreat in Death Valley. He just...
Dear friends, perhaps some of you will be interested in joining me on a Yahoo group that was setup specifically for those who are interested in working...
Hello friends, I just wanted to let you know that the GWV website for the study of Pali and Buddhist Literature has now acquired the entire Sri Lanka Tipitaka...
Hello friends, every one has something to offer, and it is not the same thing for everyone. We do not expect anything of our members, we would just like...
Hello dear friends while I am not well funded, I have been asked to lead a jhana retreat next week. We have set the location for the GWV Jhana retreat. It...
May 23-29th, 6-day Jhana retreat near Boulder, CO, led by Jeff Brooks (Jhananda) for the Great Western Vehicle at Jeff & Karen Combelicıs Kiva, Goldhill, CO....
Why is the work of Jeff Brooks being marginalized by the Priesthood of Buddhism? Hello friends, I found to get where I am with respect to religion and the ...
Hello friends, I have submitted a paper to the CESNUR 2006 Conference on New Religions, which will be held in San Diego, CA., July 13-16, 2006. The submitted...
Hello friends, because the discourse on meditative absorption necessitates a critique of the religious institutions of the world, as well as how Buddhism has...
Hello Pat, Jason, Suman, Roxan, Guy, Sand, Maureen, Michael, Brent and others, and welcome to the 6 new members to this list. Hello Jason, sorry to hear you...
Hello friends, thank-you all ever so much for your regular donations, because without your contributions to this work, I am not sure if I could have continued...
Hello friends, I am glad to hear that so far only a few people on the GWV listserves have reported off-list harassment. It unfortunately does happen from...
Hello dear friends thank-you all for posting your contribution and helping make the dialog on this list interesting and respectful. I am sorry that I wont be a...
Hello friends, the GWV jhana retreat in Gold Hill, CO is underway right now. It is ever so nice to sit in meditation with my dear old friends Michael and Karen...
Hello friends, a few years ago I led a weekend workshop on jhana in Santa Monica, CA. Millennium Twain, was my gracious host. At that workshop I showed the...
Hello friends the recorded dialogs from the last GWV 10-day Jhana/Samadhi retreat in Gold Hill have now been made available on-line. It took a concerted...
As an Anthropologist looking at religion I find there are a number of purposes for religion. Most notably it is one of the important ways by which people...
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