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If we wish to be sure of the road we tread on we should close our eyes and walk in the dark 17th Angel, Yes, on reflection, perhaps not the best advice to give to someone about to embark upon a trek across the Himalayas............... ............yet as InLove has pointed out, and in...

InLove, Thanks for your little sequence of poems...............and to my mind you are right, why strive to make things "fit"? Why should things "fit"............the old "self-power" game! Til the angels carry me...........it all suggests to me what I have always called the "keep the bugs...

From the whimsical pen of Billy Collins........."Shovelling Snow with Buddha" In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, tossing the dry snow over a mountain of his bare, round shoulder, his hair tied in a knot, a model of...

.......you see...........you don't necessarily have to post in the right thread...........:D

And while I have a little time, a few words on the Dharma...... The Buddha did not teach Buddhism. He taught the Dharma, the law. He did not teach a set of beliefs or dogmas, or systems that have arbitrarily to be accepted. Through his own experience of enlightenment, he pointed the way for...

We can still be crazy after all these years Sometimes as we tread the path of the "Universal Dharma" there are watersheds, maybe some words of another that illuminate in a way that speaks directly to us. I remember reading the following, written by the Tibetan Buddhist Pema...

InLove, Reading your question, the following popped into my mind.............a short verse or two from "The Dark Night of the Soul" by the Christian mystic St John of the Cross............ I had no guide, no light, save that which burned within my heart. And yet this light did guide my...

InLove, Many thanks for popping in..............I was beginning to think I was creating some sort of self-indulgent blog.....:) I have always loved the beatitudes, especially.......Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Without seeking to improve upon the "Good Book" -as...

Hi Francis..................from my own perspective I feel we should continue taking the medicine..........the rest follows naturally, "without calculation"...... :)

The Great Wisdom is the oneness of things, the Great Compassion is the manyness of things Linking compassion with the "manyness" of things seems real to me. It seems a sad fact that religion is often a force for division rather than of reconciliation. (Just a frank and open...

There seems much talk of "one way" - to the exclusion of all others - within the various Faiths of the world. In respect of the "universal dharma", another "take" on this drawn from various Buddhist scriptures......... The Lord speaks with but one voice, but all beings, each according to...

Miss Amy, Stephen Batchelor has some thoughts on this............... (In the Buddha's first sermon he speaks as follows)......Anguish is to be understood, its origins to be let go of, its cessation to be realized, and the path to be cultivated................Despite the Buddha's own...

my own home town gives me enough to doubt...........thanks for the laugh! (Though if you want real doubt try Basildon!) :) P.S. hey, your not trying another hi-jack are you.........?

I think it is well to remember that "Buddhism" is not one great monolithic structure and teaching that has remained constant for 2500 years. There is a distinct division between "Theravada" and "Mahayana", though the split becomes decidedly hazy at times............:D As far as Theravada...

Hi Snoopy, No need for any apologies us far as I'm concerned...............my own threads seem far better once hi-jacked.......:D :)

Once again, in keeping with my original quote........The system has succeeded when the Buddhist can recognize the true dharma at the core of all other religions and disciplines that are based on respect for the human image, and has no need to reject them.......... My mind goes back to the...

earl, your words above capture my own thoughts in a way far more simple than the convoluted attempt I was about to make to express my views! Pure Land is not Christianity, and Amida is not Christ...........Historically each has expressed themselves in different ways. Why on earth does...

Hi Snoops, hello from the prospective wriggly worm........... and, yes, I insist......... In keeping with my original quote concerning the "universal dharma" that is found in literature, and that the teachings of Christ are perfumed with dharma..................I think Jesus spoke much...

lunamoth, take a look at my avatar........................."Amida Looking back" She/he has her hands in the mudra of "peace/fearlessness" and of "expressing the teachings", yet she turns to look back, her first concern being for the fallen, the broken, the misfits, those often without the...

To kick off...................for "misfits" everywhere..... Laura Gilpin's "The Two-headed Calf" Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It...