Good Friends: The November Sutra Salon will meet on Tuesday, November 22, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. (It is early this month because November 1...
Good Friends: The Sebastopol Sutra Salon will meet this coming Tuesday, October 27, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will continue with our...
Good Friends: This is the reading schedule for the Lotus Sutra for the Sutra Salon in 2010: Lotus Sutra Reading Schedule January 2010 Chapters 1 and 2 February...
I read a poem this morning about the obit page in the paper. I like reading the obits sometimes. It occurred to me that reading them and saying Metta for all...
Good Friends: The September Sutra Salon will meet tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will conclude our discussion of the Jataka (is that...
Good Friends: The August meeting of the Sutra Salon will take place tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will continue our discussion of ...
Good Friends: The July Sutra Salon will meet next Tuesday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will continue our discussion of the Flower...
Good Friends: The June Sutra Salon meeting for Sebastopol will take place on June 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers. Because there were five Tuesdays last month,...
Good Friends: The May meeting of the Sebastopol Sutra Salon will be this coming Tuesday, the day after Memorial Day, May 27th, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers...
Good Friends: The April meeting of the Sutra Salon will be this coming Tuesday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will be finishing our ...
Answering my own question with a little research: The first six items on these lists match. On each list they are: 1. Generosity 2. Ethical conduct 3. Patience...
Good Friends: The March Meeting of the Sebastopol Sutra Salon will be this coming Tuesday, March 24th, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will...
Why I'm Not A Non-Dualist The subject of non-dual teachings came up in a series of recent posts. I thought it was a good discussion, but I also felt that...
Good Friends: This is an early reminder that the month of March contains five Tuesdays and the Sutra Salon will meet on the Fourth Tuesday, not the last...
Good Friends: Last Tuesday there were several comments regarding the lack of disputation and argumentativeness in the Flower Ornament Sutra. In particular,...
Good Friends: The Sebastopol Sutra Salon will meet on Tuesday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. I'm looking forward to some good...
Dan, thank you for your comments. This sutra is especially beneficial for me. When I burst into laughter it was, I think, a shift from the mind to the heart....
Dear Dharmajim, When I first began reading the Flower Ornament Scripture my mind couldn’t get around the inconceivable endless descriptions of the beauty of...
Dharmajim, Thank you for your insightful comments. I am blown away by the Avatamsaka Sutra. At one point, I was tempted to skip over many pages so as to get...
Following up on Karl's remark about Mahayana and Theravada, I wanted to share with other members of the Salon an aspect of the approach I am using when...
Good Friends: The January meeting of the Sebastopol Sutra Salon will be tomorrow night, at 7:30 p.m., at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will be having our first...
As has been discussed on this forum previously, at least for some of us including me, spending so much time reading the Pali canon provided a slightly...
Thank you, everyone for the comments. I'm glad I asked about the 10 directions; it keeps coming up, and now I don't have to wonder if I'm missing something. ...
Hi, Dharma friends, I'm starting out the year with the intention to pause at the end of each day and express my gratitude by posting a page of gratitude on ...
In the FOS on page 74 third stanza it reads: The Buddha appears throughout the ten directions Universally responding to all hearts, teaching the truth— All...
Good Friends: The Sebastopol Sutra Salon will meet this coming Tuesday, December 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. Please note that we are meeting...
Hi Jim, Thank you for responding and asking about what had been my difficulty. Your hunch was spot-on: I found the elaborateness of the imagery difficult...
Good Friends: Looking at the list of messages, I incorrectly titled last month's announcement for the Sutra Salon meeting as "November", when it was really...
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