... Yes, another perspective can only add to understanding. "It is related that Sari al-Saqati said, 'O God, whatever punishment thou mayst inflict upon me, do...
Friends: How to Cross: The venerable Upasiva once requested the Buddha: Sir, I am alone, dependent, helpless, I cannot cross the flood of sense desire, the...
Printed from www.care2.com Gradual Spiritual Awakening Inspired by A Gradual Awakening, by Stephen Levine (Anchor Books, 1989). Simple Solution Many of us have...
The Unripe Student A student eager to find enlightenment approached the master. "Master" he said, "how long will it take me to find enlightenment?" The master...
It comes when it comes, I suppose. greg Dave Lazenby <d_lazenby27@...> wrote: The Unripe Student A student eager to find enlightenment approached the ...
Friends: The Last Relinquishment: When ignorance of the 4 Noble Truths finally fully evaporates he no longer clings to sense pleasures, he no longer clings to...
Thanks for this, and for links to these sites, which I now have bookmarked ... best, bro. steve ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
Hi everyone, I don't post to this list often, but I read it often. I find comfort in knowing that there are others out there who are blending their religious ...
Well, my prayers and thoughts are with you, Karen. I, too, read often, but post seldom. I don't know what churches are available in your new area, but some are...
Hello Karen, I understand what you are up against. I have always had ideas and concepts that were not part of the mainstream. I grew up in fundamentalist...
Friends: No Need: Friends, for the virtuous one, correctly behaving, completed in morality, there is no need to wish: "May I enjoy a clear conscience", since...
BlankFriends The All Good & Golden Rules: Do neither Kill nor praise Killing. Rather avoid taking any kind of Life. Also make others stop killing too by ...
Thank you for the wonderful resources. I visited both the Christen Zen and the World Community for Christian meditation sites and found some lovely stuff on...
Karen, I grew up in such a part of the country ... have lived there often over the years ... and have served congregations (incl. my current one) in which some...
BlankFriends: Non-Empty Void: Void, Void, they say! Void of What ? There is no permanent individuality ‘in here’. All is void continuous same personal...
Pain plus the belief in an ego results in suffering. Pain without a belief in an ego is simply pain. Suffering comes from the belief in an ego. Robert...
Pain is suffering, suffering is pain, realization that all is temporary cannot numb your senses. always in the now, time passes, pain comes and goes, suffering...
Suffering is a verb; pain is a noun, verbs imply a subject, but if there is no subject, why a verb? (Robert the admittedly failed grammarian lamely tries to...
BlankFriends: Self is Not … !!! Question: Who are you ? Answer: Something Else ! There is no Self as the agent of any action.. There is no Self as the...
I enjoyed that. Thanks. greg sanjulag <sanjulag@...> wrote: This was put together by me. ==================================================== Buddha and...
BlankFriends: Naturally it is evidently essential for any real & true Buddhist to know exactly what the historical Buddha (563-483 BC) actually said & did!...
... I realize this is quibbling, but I think this particular notion has been somewhat exaggerated -- sort of like the medieval Christian legends which also...
Perhaps, I am sure stories of Siddhartha and Jesus/Yeshua were embellished somewhat. And in the case of Jesus/Yeshua, a whole period of his life is not covered...
BlankFriends: Caused by What ? Ignorance causes mental construction to arise. Mental construction causes consciousness to arise. Consciousness causes...
Dear all, Of course, Buddha was a prince, and in order for him to get married before he went to make himself a monk, as a prophet told his father the king, his...
BlankFriends: The seven Steps to Enlightenment: 1: Perfection of Morality. 2: Guarding the Senses. 3: Moderation in Eating. 4: Wakefulness at Night. 5:...
First and foremost; I am a Christian. Christ is the Life the Turth and the Way and non go to the God but through him. But there are certain ideologies in...
Sounds pretty good to me, however, the older I get the less distinction I see between the Inner Christ (a Quaker approach) and the Buddha-nature. Strip away...
The following is from "Comfortable with Uncertainty" by Pema Chodron. This is teaching 79. I find this teaching so simple yet so profound and truly difficult...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
