Certainly if reincarnation were biblical, I wouldn't dance around it or finesse the passages. Origen believed in a number of things that the majority didn't,...
Reincarnation is not really part of all forms of Buddhism. It is an aspect of the Tibetan variety but not really a part of Zen Buddhism. In Zen where emptiness...
Jonathan, I'm here (i.e. on this message board) so sporadically I really don't know for certain when or how this has been discussed before ... and more often...
Friends, In terms of the current discussion (viz. reincarnation) this is a change in the subject ... but I was quite taken with the "Buddhist Wisdom" ...
What is the meaning of Fa Yen's words? If you had to say something. In my mind, Christianity is hung up on words - as if words can describe the indescribable -...
Friends, ... Although I realize Rick's question is addressed to everyone, personally I don't know what they mean ... which in part is what I meant by saying I...
Thanks Bryan I appreciate your support. Karen ... -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database:...
All this talk about words and meanings reminds me of a banner posted in my Sign Language Interpreting Rm in College. It said " Words are only a tool to convey...
Thanks for the comments Rick. One other thing I have noticed is that in the East, reincarnation is considered an onerous truth, a sad and painful cycle that...
... it seems to me that this last possibility has not been looked at very closely. what did the early church fathers know? how did they think about what we...
Friends: Friendliness means Goodwill Friendliness means Kindness Friendliness means Helpfulness Friendliness means Assistance Friendliness means Support ...
Dear Rev.Enigma and all, It isn't easy to make sense of the loss of ones loved ones but forgive me, life and death and God are great enigmas aren't they? ...
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Feb 2, 2005 9:42 am
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In Zen meditation we think non-thinking—that is, we think nothing. What this means is that our whole psychological mind ceases to function, and as a result,...
Friends: Step by Step Towards Mental Perfection: Question: What is the Cause of perfect Enlightening Release through Knowledge ? Answer: Understanding is the...
I have been reading your Descartes. Very interesting. "I think, therefore I am." He forgot to mention the other part. I'm sure he knew, he just forgot: "I...
Thought for today at dailyzen.com ... re: our earlier discussions about words ... Words cannot express things; Speech does not convey the spirit. Swayed by...
Thanks Rick Fischer for your Katagiri Roshi(?) quotes and also thanks Bro.Steve Durham for your Mumon quote. 'Wisdom is attained in the Solitude'- ...
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Feb 4, 2005 5:29 pm
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Shanti, I found a lot of things online about Hazrat Inayat Khan ... if you just click on the link below, or copy and paste it to your address window, you...
Bryan, Thank you for this thoughtful reply ... I'll keep it in my Inbox until I've had a better chance to digest it. I have at least some of Origen's works on...
Oops ... I think I got your name wrong ... sorry :-( steve ... http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=hazrat+inayat+khan&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8 ... ...
Thank you Bro.Steve for the online info on
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The name Shanti was given to me by Pir-O-Murshid
Musharaff Khan ..the youngest brother of Hazrat...
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Feb 5, 2005 8:45 am
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Dear Karen, I am sorry to hear about your recent loss. I lost my dad when he was 44 and I was 22. I still wonder what our relationship would be like had he...
With apologies to *everyone* here -- life keeps me so tied up and away from the message board so often, like gina etc., that I'm only vaguely aware of *all* of...
Steve, Two days from now will mark one month of my father's passing, and it still doesn't seem real. Indeed, it comes crashing over me like a wave every so ...
Rev. Enigma, Amen, bro, amen ... hardly a night goes by. We hung on a tree in our back yard a set of wind chimes my Dad had made many many years ago, something...
Your father seems to be quite alive in your thoughts. Isn't it a choice to view a death of a loved one as a loss? Some cultures celebrate a death as a movement...
Friends: No Self Exists ... There neither ever was, nor is now, nor will ever be any 'Person'... There neither ever was, nor is now, nor will ever be any...
Easy for you to say, being a true blue Hinayana Buddhist! But taking matters to the only true conclusion leads me to say that there is also no Non-Self. As...
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