Hi, My name is Ernest, just joined the group today. Would like to know more about what this group does, and is you do any regular meditations here, thanx. Love...
Ernest
ernestniedzialek@...
Mar 7, 2000 8:10 pm
1514
Hi all, if there's interest we should re-activate this group, and finish the current lamrim cycle. But this time I would request that: * Any heated debates and...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Apr 19, 2000 8:42 pm
1515
Hi all! Is anybody on this list interested in esoteric studies? A friend of my introduced me to this webcast called “Science and the Outer Streams” that I...
dan mcnelis
redbone42@...
Apr 19, 2000 9:29 pm
1516
Hi kent Im all for reactivation as i did learn alot fron the site. And I strongly support stricter rules . A little too much freestyling last time, I think it...
Olivia Countryman
lvchows@...
Apr 20, 2000 5:23 pm
1517
Dear Kent What textbook will you be using if you do decide to go ahead. How about Principle Teachings of Buddhism. We can do the exact meditations recommended...
buddlin
buddlin@...
Apr 20, 2000 5:23 pm
1518
... Hi, thanks for all comments, and feel free to send them to the list, or to me directly. This will be great! (I'm in Japan next week, so some of my emails...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Apr 20, 2000 8:35 pm
1519
Hi, thanks for the feedback! ... Ok, here's an attempt to clarify the rules/guidelines. This should be four sentences so it won't become a long and boring...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Apr 20, 2000 9:12 pm
1520
This is great!!:) Thanks Olivia...
Olivia Countryman
lvchows@...
Apr 20, 2000 9:56 pm
1521
Very interested... ... From: Kent Sandvik <sandvik@...> To: Lamrim Mailing List <lamrim@egroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:42 PM Subject:...
me
prajnaseeker@...
Apr 24, 2000 5:32 am
1522
In a message dated 4/20/00 4:37:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sandvik@... writes: << Anyway, yes, the Principal Teachings of Buddhism was a commentary by ...
Batya222@...
Apr 24, 2000 5:33 am
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This sounds about right to me. I'm all for analysis, but it got really deep and a bit off target at times before and lost a lot of us.... I actually got ...
me
prajnaseeker@...
Apr 24, 2000 5:33 am
1524
In article <006f01bfacbf$752a4a20$99403004@oemcomputer>, me <prajnaseeker@...> writes ... I've often wondered what the 'proper order' actually means,...
Mike Austin
mike@...
Apr 25, 2000 12:40 am
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Konnichiwa, greetings from Tokyo. We should finish the HH Dalai Lama "Path to Bliss" lamrim commentary, so this a series of postings related to this book...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Apr 28, 2000 12:54 am
1526
... The sole motivation of a bodhisattva's every action is the liberation of all living beings. Everything else is a means to that end. ... Wisdom realising...
Thomas Ythan Jones
Apyrtyj@...
Apr 29, 2000 1:39 pm
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In a message dated 4/27/00 8:55:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sandvik@... writes: << TEXT Page 186 forward, HH Dalai Lama describes the various activities...
Batya222@...
May 2, 2000 5:43 pm
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... Actually, the bodhisattva vows, the secondary vows, are divided along the lines of the six perfections. I'm using the listing from ...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
May 2, 2000 6:33 pm
1529
Here's some more about bodhisattva deeds, especially the bodhisattva mind training part. I worked on this text last night for another event, and wanted to...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
May 5, 2000 7:57 pm
1530
To continue with HH Dalai Lama's Path to Bliss Lamrim commentary - First Perfection, Perfection of Giving. page 187 "The first among the six perfections is...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
May 9, 2000 4:47 am
1531
... Well, all the worry about judging it seems like miserliness, at least to me. There is too much you in it, in all that judging of it. One simply gives...
Richard Menninger
rmenninger@...
May 10, 2000 12:35 am
1532
* So, if one purchases the dharma book instead of donating the full amount of money, what's the decisive factor concerning the perfection of giving in each...
JOSEPH BRECK
LJBRECK@...
May 10, 2000 8:39 pm
1533
... The most precious thing that one can give is, of course, dharma. There are many locations where this type of giving has occured, but maybe none so famous...
Thomas Ythan Jones
Apyrtyj@...
May 13, 2000 12:26 pm
1534
... Oh, yes, there are many cases where the perfect giving of the body has happened, for example Asanga, and a former bodhisattva who gave his body to a tiger...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
May 13, 2000 6:59 pm
1535
Just to add to the perfection of giving, which is usually related to the first bodhisattva level, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso I remember saying at a teaching that...
A Bruno
obruno@...
May 14, 2000 1:12 am
1536
... Fine, but the body is NOT the most precious thing one can give, although it may be a very selfless act to give it. For example, which would be kinder out...
Thomas Ythan Jones
Apyrtyj@...
May 15, 2000 2:14 pm
1537
In article <392013DB.28247.36FF28@localhost>, Thomas Ythan Jones <Apyrtyj@...> writes ... It is interesting to consider whether the 'preciousness'...
Mike Austin
mike@...
May 15, 2000 3:39 pm
1538
Mike, ... I agree with what you have said. But I still maintain that dharma is a more precious gift than one's body. Why? Because it has greater and more...
Thomas Ythan Jones
Apyrtyj@...
May 15, 2000 4:13 pm
1539
... OK, I was referring to the story of Shakyamuni Buddha before he became enlightened, he and his brother Maitreya found this starving tiger and her cubs, and...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
May 15, 2000 4:21 pm
1540
... This is an interesting one. I was at a teaching one summer which was near the sea, so hot and humid - ideal for moquitos. A monk I know had a mosquito...
Thomas Ythan Jones
Apyrtyj@...
May 15, 2000 4:41 pm
1541
... This is actually an interesting topic, so sorry if we continue with this theme. Anyway, in the case of giving the body, and in this particular case, if...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
May 15, 2000 4:56 pm
1542
... Now this is an interesting argument about mosquitoes. You would have a real hard sell around NYC with it right now. It seems there were cases last year of...
