... That helped me as well, now that I've finally come over here again to read what has been posted over the last couple of months. It had not occured to me...
Hi Dharmajim, Is the relationship drawn between the Three Poisons and specific rebirths a contribution by Red Pine or a more generally held view? Quoting from...
Sorry but the bold font did not come through. I had highlighted "Three Poisons of anger (animals), greed (hungry ghosts), and delusion (sinners)." Jean ... ...
Good Friends: The March meeting of the Sebastopol Sutra Salon will be this coming Tuesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers. We will continue our ...
Hi Jim, Isn't there also a place where one one the monks come to the Buddha and asked what will become of one of the monks who is dying and the Buddha replies...
Bruce Gibbs
bbentonb@...
Mar 23, 2008 5:44 pm
1992
Dharmajim, O.k. I have now gone through the last part of the sutra, where the monk sets out to find perfect wisdom. I had a strange thought occur to me after...
The first Metta Meeting at Dan Gurney's home went very well. Metta Meeting provides opportunities twice a month for members of the Sebastopol Sutra Salon and...
Interesting question about the bodhisattva vow: if we resolve to save all sentient beings how are we ever going to achieve complete nirvana? Since we co-create...
Good Friends: The Sebastopol Sutra Salon will meet this coming Tuesday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m., at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will be concluding our ...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="Heart+Sutra"+chant We were talking about the different ways of chanting the Heart Sutra at our meeting last...
Sorry folks. Apparently I cannot mail the relevant link. But if you want to hear some cool chanting of the Heart Sutra, just go to the You Tube site and in the...
Hi Friends, I thought you might like to know that Dharmajim's Book of Gratitude entry for tomorrow, May 6, is "Emptiness or Prajna Paramita Day." According to...
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...
I am enjoying the Heart Sutra so much, in many ways because of Red Pine's fine translation. I think some of you in the Sutra Salon may enjoy this video, which...
Suzanne Stewart
sstewart@...
Jun 1, 2008 6:52 am
2004
Thanks for this, Suzanne! I enjoyed seeing Bill Porter talk about his work. He seemed remarkably ordinary, a regular guy for a someone who is such an...
Ditto, thanks much, Bruce ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Bruce Gibbs
bbentonb@...
Jun 1, 2008 11:07 pm
2006
Dear Dharmajim, I would like to resolve a difference between my notes of a talk you gave on "The Various Buddhist Canon" (June 2004) and Red Pine's text in The...
I will be out of the office starting 06/14/2008 and will not return until 06/20/2008. out...
c.d.wilson@...
Jun 16, 2008 2:24 pm
2008
Dear Jean: Your notes are accurate, but I am probably mistaken. I got that idea from Thich Nhat Hanh, but I think that TNH may be basing his observation on...
Good Friends: The Sutra Salon will meet in Sebastopol tomorrow, June 24, Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will be discussing the Heart ...
Good Friends: The book that the Sutra Salon is reading for the rest of the year, "The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary" has ...
Good Friends: The July Sutra Salon will meet this coming Tuesday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers. We will be discussing the Verse Summary of the ...
I didn't check my email this week until today and thought the meeting was next week. Sorry, my bad. I did have trouble getting through the verses and didn't...
Hi Rick, I missed seeing you. I too didn't understand some of the verse section of the Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines sutra, but thought that I would...
Hello All, I was glad to see Rick's note. I also missed the meeting on Tuesday and have been perplexed about the verses, hoping that the narrative would be...
Suzanne Stewart
sstewart@...
Jul 26, 2008 3:57 am
2015
Good Friends: Just to clarify, the Sutra Salon meets on the Fourth Tuesday of every month. Most months that will be the last Tuesday, but on months with five...