Hello friends, perhaps we can engage in a dialog regarding the Society for Meditation and Meditation Research (SMMR)? If you are interested in such a ...
*Talks by Sayalay Dipankara* A Talk by Sayalay Dipankara (A collection of 66 sequential files) (1 - 4 mins) File 1 - How Sayalay started her practice? File 1...
Hello everyone, Jeff Brooks has expressed to me before that he felt that through his experiences remembering past lives as animals that they were not that...
What-Buddha-Taught.net <http://www.what-buddha-taught.net/> *Dhamma Quotes* "Inconceivable, bhikkhus, is the beginning of this samsara*. * A first point is...
The First Deep South presentation. The Gaiadon Heart Aumkabah Keys of Ascension , Module IA in Biloxi , Mississippi I am very happy to officially announce the...
Taking a Stand By Ven. Abhinaya Some time ago I picked up a Buddhist magazine, on the cover of which was a design purporting to show the hand of the Buddha...
I wish to return to this post and give a more thoughtful and thorough reply, later on, but I have to at least make two points as regards a built-in assumption...
You have a good view. I don't think anywhere I've seen that Buddha said to nbe vegetarian. bahb ... thorough reply, later on, but I have to at least make two...
In the translation of the Pali written Dhammapada I read that the Buddha told Ananda to be a light onto himself...he also taught that we shouldn't believe...
Dear Gloria, I was once a great meat eater. Love eating meats and can't imagine how my life would be without that finger licking good. Visited a slaughter...
Dear Swan, Thank you for sharing what motivated you to become vegetarian. Like you, I too am vegetarian and much of what motivated me was the embracing of an...
Hi Lee, I'd just like to turn your attention a little bit, toward not the meat-eating, but the attitude. Your self-love included an image of a meat-eater....
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Hello. I ran across this story on NPR. It describes progress being made to grow meat artificially in a lab. Someday this may be a viable source of meat that ...
Dear Gloria, To me, meaty issue has nothing to do with spiritual level of awareness. It is about right understanding, and more so - the nature of existence,...
Namaste Lee, The whole story of Milarepa gives me hope...to move beyond these dualities of Good vs. Evil to embody compassion and wisdom...to awaken...that is...
Hi Lee, The very depth of right understanding depends on a clear understanding of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Awareness of body, awareness of speech,...
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Dear Larry, Mindfulness or awareness is a tool for mental cultivation, but Mindfulness must lead to Right Understanding, which eventually paves the way to...
We work on filling our hearts with love and compassion through meditation and prayer. Through these things and posiitve thinking and staying in the moment, we...
... meditation and prayer. Through these things and posiitve thinking and staying in the moment, we drive out the negative thoughts and emotions that lead to...
Subdue or Transmute?...subdue carries the connotation of repressing and pushing down...transmutation...that implies taking the same force and energy and just...
Checkout this Website <http://www.meat.org/> - Look at the suffering of those poor creatures . Take a stand against cruelty to animals : By switching to a...
I haven't eaten any mammals for almost 30 years (I feel solidarity with them, I guess), but I must say that I worry sometimes that if there were no meat...
In other regions of the world cows are regarded as providing other gifts to human beings including their milk and dung (can be used for all kinds of purposes...
plainly we were meet to eat other animals other wise we would not have the taste for meat,,,and since we found that chimps hunt other animals,,,and we would...
Hey Adam, I am going to co-post this to the meditation research list because I think there are some useful extractable facts for researchers: My meditation has...
This is me....Baby Seal.. [L o v e b e a t s ] Norway and Canada have a new kind of tourism. Killing baby seals!!!! They call it 'hunting' and it's a sport [L...