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Hey Snoopy! Long time no read........... Book recommendation...."Verses From the Centre" By Stephen Batchelor. As an attempt to cling desperately to my own particular conditioning, a quote from "The Three Pure Land Sutras" by Hisao Inagaki............It is clear.......that Nagarjuna was a...

For the garden is the only place there is but we shall not find it until we have searched everywhere and found nowhere that is not a desert. W.H.Auden :)

I've been taking a quiet time away. Dipping into some of the writings of Merton again. His Letters and Journals, which I love. You never quite know just what is coming next.......and the reading is slow and reflective, so much suggested by Merton's own thoughts and words. Merton was an early...

InLove, maybe attempting to "figure it all out" can be our biggest mistake? Once again I resort to the words of Thomas Merton. I am reading again from his letters................. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen, we can find ourself engulfed in such...

Whatever the intent of the original question, it made me think of a short passage in the book by the Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor, "Living With the Devil"................. I was about sixteen when my mother inadvertently undermined the instinctive conviction that my existence was...

......well.........yes.......seems to me that Mara often has a fine point of view. At least, it seems so to me..........:eek: Bruce Michael >"It makes no difference what you grasp," said the Buddha, "when >someone grasps, Mara stands beside him." Do you mean in a selfish way? I would...

More generally, we should, I believe, interpret all of the biblical ideas associated with divine judgement as redemptive ideas. (Thomas Talbott, "The Inescapable Love of God")

"It makes no difference what you grasp," said the Buddha, "when someone grasps, Mara stands beside him." ..............says tariki quite self-righteously......:o Excerpt from "Living with the Devil" by Stephen Batchelor.... Buddha calls Mara the Antaka. While anta means "end"...

Let no one persuade you that there is in Him a little darkness, because of something He has said which His creatures interprets into darkness......Neither let your cowardly conscience receive any word as light because another calls it light, while it looks to you dark. Say either the thing is...

jiii, thanks for the information. I love autobiographies but have never read this one. Many moons ago I did read a few of the books by Alan Watts and still have a copy of his "Cloud Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown", sub-titled "A Mountain Journal", which contains many interesting essays on...

cav, I feel Inlove has expressed it truly.................go with what you can. For each of us the "Me" will always contain the echoes of all that has been expressed by a million others, yet there is a "me" that is yours, and yours alone, the "light which lights everyone who comes into the...

maybe its a case of insiders and outsiders? If we are "insiders" we see the "beauty", if an "outsider" only that which is "ugly". Hopefully, come the final reconciliation, such divisions will be seen to be passing things............ ...there is something too real to allow sin any longer to...

Shadowman, well, there are some autobiographical passages in Thomas Talbott's book "The Inescapable Love of God" where he speaks of his own early meeting with certain theologies that spoke much of God's "justice" and of God's "holiness", yet little of God's love.............. "I seemed...

Can someone tell me if this is the same on their own PC? I sometimes like to see how much interest there is in any particular thread..........at the moment this is impossible. Thanks

Maybe this has been raised before, but on my PC the number of "views" for each thread is always just 1 more than the number of replies/posts. Is this some sort of error? Thanks

The speech of God is silence.......everything else is fiction, half-hiding the truth it tries to reveal.......we are travellers from the half-world of language into solitude and infinity..... (Journals, Jan 11, 1950)

I was deeply saddened to hear the news. Here we often just seem to deal with names in Cyberspace, yet in my own case I cannot but have instant reactions to seeing the name attached to any particular post. The name "Prober" always evoked in me a positive reaction, knowing I would meet in his...

"god" as some sort of Batman superhero? well, that doesn't seem to be the way "he" works, though some might wish "he" did.......especially those who surmise that it will be anyone but themselves who feel the expression of "his" wrath or some sort of correction to their theology...... as far...

shadowman, you are challenging some of the great Shakespearean monologues here (not!).............do you never tire of flaying certain expressions of the Christian Faith? My own life - and faith - revolves around Amida...........Amida as the expression/personification of the Infinite...

In the last analysis what I am looking for in solitude is not happiness or fulfillment but salvation. Not "my own" salvation, but the salvation of everybody........I am here for one thing: to be open, not to be "closed in" on any one choice to the exclusion of all others: to be open to God's...