We all need more study and more practice but what I don't understand is why individuals on this group are attacking each other. I find it very disruptive and...
Dear Kathy , I do agree but I think this is just conversation at least I hope and people are getting a little exited/energized about the topic which can be...
Thanks Kirt You are probally right about Taoist emptiness, however just the very idea of the Taoist vision of emptiness opened me up to receive the Buddhist...
Hi Lu Stephen Mitchell's is the one. My daughter found it in a 2nd hand book shop, I was so knocked out that I wrote it out by hand, to have a copy, that was...
Hello Nora May Something for you. "Skillful speech not only means that we pay attention to the words we speak and to their tone but also requires that our...
Just learning about ground wisdom isn't enough. It is like only looking at a delicious meal when hungry. Just as one needs to eat food in order to dispel one's...
I have not posted in a while but I ask for your help at this time.My father punctured a lung on friday morning and as he is 77 this along with other medical...
Hello All, The Buddha Online http://buddha.clawz.com/ is looking for content contributions. If you have anything related to Buddhism regardless of school of...
Dear Noramay, I was actually becomming concerned since whatever we contrive or fabricate cannot be emptiness.Also every text or teaching mentions the seal of...
Happy Year of the Water Sheep from New Zealand - a land of much water and just as many sheep! Our centre used this occassion today as a fundraiser (towards a...
Dear Mr. Manzie: I will pray for your father and request that his name be put on the altar at my local Dharma center. Take care of yourself during this trying...
Abigail, With Taoist/ Tai Chi mix you might enjoy "The Wheel of Life" by John Blofeld (Shambala). Wonderful travalog in "old" china with Taoist/ Buddhist...
Dear friends, I am new to this list. I have read basically all the information available on the web about the Karmapa contoversy. My question is as follows:...
To be honest Brent, a list of who did what to whom is not really going to decide for you who the Karmapa is. Most of the people on this list will tell you that...
Sometimes I see meditation practices or daily practice labeled 4 fold practice or six fold practice. What are the folds? I ask because sometimes they are one...
Hey, Brent -- Many of us have been where you are. So I understand. And your logic is unassailable -- they *are* high lamas who disagree, and so, what to make ...
A lot of people do come to Buddhist practice from exposure to Taoism in some form. And there is a great deal of wisdom in the Tao Te Ching. There is also at...
... My wife came home and had the line again for a few days. There are levels of it. The basic level is easy to get, but it sets the tone for view being much...
... I was using it in the Myers-Briggs sense, as well. I had actively resisted such typing, thereby avoiding taking the "tests" involved while working. But...
... Those seem to be more in line with what I was saying. ... Well I now call the old meaning the samsaric facimile of intelligence, as there is so much...
Thank you for expressing your concerns about your perceptions about me. ... I could not sit in formal posture after a certain point. I had done much of it...
... Well, when she asked "have you even read Shantideva?" well it seemed right in line with the practice versus study thing to say the other thing and it felt...
Hi to all, I would like to invite all who are interested in 10 day Phowa teaching and initations with Ven. Ayang Rinpoche from 17.04. - 26.04. 2003 in Zagreb,...
Dear Bill I will pray for your father John Manzie & for you too Bill. Your's in the Dharma Abigail Keizan's verse A solitary boat proceeds unaided in the...
I was able to talk to a Lama about it. He resolved my questions. I also thought better of something. Earlier I had asked people to inform me if either Tai...
My friends Naomi (famous as "Naomi the brave") and Ellen Marie asked me to post this to our list: His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche to give Vajrasattva Retreat in...
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Hello Richard Menninger and All: I too am an INFP. Recently I read in Reginald Ray's "Secret of the Vajra World" of different Buddha personality types. As I...
... Emptiness as words is intellectual, involves dualistic intellect. But true understanding of it is nondual, as it is but words pointing at what is beyond...
Hello All: I also pray for your father. Richard ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators,...
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