G'day Sue Yes, the purpose of our gatherings is spiritual development. Perhaps I could best quote from the entrance brochure for our last fire circle. "All...
Dear Vacchagotta, If you want to discuss the topic further (sex) , you could just have said it. I did not end the discussion. I am not, -- and no one is for...
Dear Coolhuggie, I do not share your opinion. I think discussions are a profitable way to enrich our life-experience of the path to Nirvana until we reach the...
Dearest Jeff Brooks, You are so thoughtful and wonderful. The Gifts of Dhamma excels all Gifts. I just hope there are many more people like you and Uncle Htoo...
Dear Dhamma Friends, Those who have a wish to get through the Samsara have a good mind. The pure wish to get through it is switched on by Chandha ( will ). If...
... integral ... loosing ... able to come ... *v* Paula, I can certainly relate to what you're saying, here. As a child, I would lose everything, my life, my...
... heart ... compassion ... so ... blue ... Yes, I enjoyed the Dakini mandala's, too. Is it possible that just looking at these and saying, yes, I know how...
... Hey S Hi Dave, Dave:"Emptiness of self and other is the view The world as the pure realm and the self and others as Buddhas in that realm is the view The...
Manomaya the "mind-made body" Discourses on the Astral Body and Out-of-Body (OOB) experiences in Buddhism Hello everyone, I am so glad that my little biography...
Hello Vajracarya Daijo, and thank-you ever so much for your kind response to my post to your listserv. It seems that you have done an excellent job in your...
Hello Sue, I am impressed, you have been doing your Pali homework. I'll be asking you to teach me soon. Yes, luminosity is definitely part of the Buddhist...
Hello Fred, please understand that I have no quarrel at all with any religion, tradition or lineage. But, any tradition that seeks an attitude of superiority,...
Welcome Michael, it is always a pleasure to receive poetry here. If poetry is your medium of expression, do consider joining the Hollow Reed as well. The...
Thank-you rookielynn for your excellent and sobering post. Best regards, Jeff Brooks In a message dated 11/27/03 9:36:52 AM, rookielynn@... writes: <<...
... Hi Paula, Your post reminds me of something that might be helpful (might not ... ....bleeding internally and laying on the gurney, late at night waiting...
... integral ... loosing ... to come ... gotten too ... have to ... ever ... being the ... everything is so ... That's funny, because I always felt like I was...
Hi Dolly, I had kept thinking that I already replied to this, then I realized today that I hadn't LOL. some things are kind of scary at first, but you get used...
God is the source and cause of all being and existence but this existence is not unchangeable, there are factors as anomaly unpredictability vs predetermism of...
Dear Frederico, I can see by this post that the discussion is no longer fruitful. The post you are replying to is very simply worded, and you have come up with...
Jeff I trust others in this group will take a hard look and the continual posters to this group- blowing their own horns so to say! Now Jeff- I could care what...
Of course, Mr. Brown provides no argumentation backed with evidence to refute the quoted view which set off his tirade; namely Jeff's statement that he does...
... I always thought, that the astral body contains the mind-made body [mental plane] but the later is void of the astral body-veil: wich manifests the...
... profitable way to enrich our life-experience of the path to Nirvana until we reach the goal and even perhaps after that. I don't play games when I write. I...
... this is a real spiritual law, even without taking vow at one point one is stagnating in the so called dry period, despite all the practice, the right...
... Hi Tamara, Jeff and all ... I agree. I think the reason they would be endless is simply that either or both parties do not recognise the good [whoelsome]...
... Buddhist seriously meditate on them to get the essence, to learn about discrimination anddoing away with ignorance ect ... I wish, now I use the time of...
... Slander of Guru Padma and.... S. Not to worry, the Tibetans put up with worse than this and done it with effortless, great compassion. "All victory to the...
... above, but ... *v* Very interesting! So, this figure 8 of trapped energy is nothing like the eights of light waves in meditation that can be focused as a...
