Thanks to each of you -- Brianna, Anna Maria and Bill!! I now have a lot to go on, and this will help. I just can't get over my astonishment that it's *this*...
... ____________________________________________________________________OK! Well then acute attention to these 4 simple points is quite advantageous:1: Keep...
"You are pure consciousness, already free, awake and liberated. Stand up and walk out of your dream. I am here to say you can do this." ~Adyashanti~ [Non-text...
"Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these...
Friends: Some Genuine Facts: Only he is bright, who shines by himself! What is good, is really ... Good !!! What is excellent, is really ... Excellent !!! What...
Thank you for sharing this story about the Dalai Lama being asked to help set up a kind of United Nations of religions to work for peace - it is very hopeful...
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Mar 3, 2006 9:17 pm
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Dear Robb, Welcome to this group! So many of us Christians have found peace and wholeness and clarity from Buddhism. It is my belief that the religions...
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Mar 3, 2006 9:24 pm
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Silence and Awareness Retreats ... A Retreat Experience in Christian Insight Meditation featuring the Teachings of Carmelite Mystic St. John of the Cross and...
... Our new website is now up with our own domain name at http://www.society-buddhist-christian-studies.org/ We have designed this site to make it active, to...
My name is Patty and I have been on a spiritual journay for most of my life.As a child,I was raised by strict Roman Catholics and was heavily influenced by the...
Hello Patty. Sounds like a very interesting personal journey! And of course it is not over until it is over--whenever that is. Anyway, welcome to the group....
Hi Steve. That part of your story about this intrigued me quite a bit too; how someone who seems to be a "conservative Christian" type could have gotten...
Hi Trisha. Let me take the opportunity to tell you that I too appreciate the quotes you have posted for us. This one in particular caught my eye, though. Don't...
Friends: Non-Control makes any Individual act like a Monkey Robot!!! How, bhikkhus and friends, is there non-control? When seeing a form with the eye, one...
... Hello- Thank you for this message and the links.I read through some of the material and found it absorbing!In this particular prose you have selected I...
Welcome to this group, Patty. Buddhism is a breath of fresh air to those of us Christians who were overstuffed with the negative parts of Christianity. It...
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Mar 4, 2006 8:30 pm
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I have been on this site for awhile and since topics have slowed thought to add my intro finally. Was in mainstream Christianity most of of my life wonder into...
A Christian-Buddhist Meditation on Ash Wednesday/Lent "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." At our Ash Wednesday service this is what the...
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Mar 4, 2006 10:04 pm
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In the news reports inYahoo. It mentioned that Osama called himself a prophet. Thats al fine and good. It means that his good followers will send him money and...
Dear Janet, I wish I had read this *before* I gave my own meditation on Wednesday ... this is really good! I went on some sort of weird autopilot for the...
Thank you Janet.I am learning so much,and have found time to meditate once again;I had been sporadic in doing so but now make a habit of it.I have found...
Only Awareness Remains by Adyashanti Life moves, undulates, breathes in and out, contracting and expanding. This is its nature, the nature of what is. Whatever...
A Zen student came to Bankei and complained: "Master, I have an ungovernable temper. How can I cure it?" "You have something very strange," replied Bankei....
Friends: Control makes any Individual Behave like an excellent Master !!! How, bhikkhus and friends, is there full mental control? When seeing a form with the...
"One point I should make here is that some people, especially those who see themselves as very realistic and practical, are sometimes too realistic and...
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