Hello from one who has been here and there this summer! I am pleased when we can join together with people from different traditions or religions at both...
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Sep 2, 2005 1:43 am
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Friends: Selfless Release is Disengaged & Detached Freedom! One can cut off the 5 lower fetters and enter the Stream to Nibbana by resolving on this with...
Alot depends on what one means by "god" or "spirit". Modern people tend to be educated to believe in an inanimate universe in which life, especially human...
Friends: Any Advantageous Mental State Improves the Future! Train yourself in doing good that lasts and brings happiness. Cultivate generosity, the life of...
Dear Friends, Just in case you live in the area. HH Dalai Lama will be visiting many different areas of the USA for 2005. Here is his schedule if anyone is...
Dear Friends, I know this is off topic but the animals in New Orleans need our help URGENTLY. I received this rather sad update regarding the many animals left...
Friends: The Five Clusters of Clinging are Burning with Ignorance! Friends, form is burning, feeling is burning, perception is burning, mental constructions...
Class draws on Jesus, Buddha If Jesus and Buddha spent a quiet weekend together, what kinds of things might they talk about and experience together? ...
Hello All, Got a question for you... I was browsing the bible with a computer search engine, and found little on peace in the context of anti-war. Other than...
Dear Maggie, I have never seen a direct anti-war wording in the New Testament or the Epistles. After Peter attacked a Centurion who came to arrest Jesus, Peter...
Friends: Understanding the Five Crucial Aspects of the Five Clusters: Friends, the uninstructed uneducated ordinary person does not understand as it really is...
Friends: Releasing the Misinterpretation launches into safe Freedom! It is by clinging, friends, that the notion: 'I am' occurs, not without clinging! And by...
Hi Mags, Good question. I guess the first thing that came to my mind was Alvin York. He was a medal of Honor winner during the first world war. He had...
Dear Mags, The best discussion of this I have ever seen is in two places: (1) the various writings of the "historic peace churches," i.e. Mennonite, Church of...
Re: my 1st paragraph below ... well, *you* know what I was trying to say dontcha? rotflmao ... I need much more time, and an editor. Strike the 1st (1)....
Dear Friends, I tried to respond to Mags' question on "peace in the Bible" but had so many typos that I am trying the whole thing again here. Hopefully the...
Makes sense to me too and that's one of the things I loved about the Episcopal Church, which I attended for about 4 years. For some reason I am drawn back to...
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Sep 8, 2005 12:16 am
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Thank you Trisha, I am happy to hear that PETA and others are fighting for this. It's shocking that this is happening in a country that seems to value its...
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Sep 8, 2005 12:33 am
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Friends: Little and short pleasure, but Loong and Painful Tribulation! Pleasures obtained by contact at the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body & mind all fade away...
Dear Steve, Thank you for your profound and illuminating understanding. Your scholarship and synthesis is superb AND extremely helpful. You have done a good...
Good morning Steve, all I can say is 'thank you' - that was very interesting! Peace, Anna Maria...
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Sep 8, 2005 5:25 pm
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Ananda and Anna Maria, Thank you for your kind words. I wrote that entirely too fast, and it's still full of non-sequiturs and who knows what all else ... but...
Dear Steve! Please, never 'shut-up' ever....your writings are beautifully instructive and penetrating with insight! Peace, ananda ... -- Jean-Pierre Alvarez,...
Thank you, also Trisha for that note about PETA and others are doing, I did see that there is more concern for the animals letting the people take their pets...
Dear Friends, My apologies that this is off topic, however, this is rather desparate news for the animals left in New Orleans. If you know of anyone you can...
Friends: Which things can enable the realization of Stream-Entry? Bhikkhus & friends, these four states, when developed & made much of leads to the realization...
Dear Steve, glad you don't "shut up" too much. Your writings are very educational and interesting for someone (me) who is just starting to read the Bible...
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Sep 9, 2005 4:48 pm
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Dear Trisha, thank you for the information - it's appalling, as are many things going on during this disaster. In my opinion nothing having to do with helping...
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Sep 9, 2005 4:59 pm
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WOW! What a response from Steve! Looks like I'm further back in the line of "thank you's"! :D THANK YOU! This response was extremely helpful to my...
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