1:name -- kusalo 2:email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- this is the msg 1:name -- kusalo 2:email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- this is the massage 1:name -- kusalo 2:email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- this isth eme 1:name -- sdfsdf 2:email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- asdasd 1:name -- asasd 2:email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- dfasd 1:name -- asd 2:email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- asdasd 1:name -- wazza up 2:email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- this is from wazza we did it! 1:name -- the final stab user_email -- Bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- now I have user_email set so bmind should get this 1:name -- Pasa Doble user_email -- pasadoble@hypernature.com 3:feedback -- Tis only Ian under yet another pseudo naihm I guess the table borders are the first thing that springs to mind... interms of function, maybe - if possible - a text box for details, e.g. graphics: I'm a professional designer etc.??? 1:name -- Richard Turner user_email -- reachyassa@yahoo.co.uk 3:feedback -- Just looking. This is my first visit. 1:name -- Brightarrow user_email -- allbright68@excite.com 3:feedback -- I would like to contribute by creating a game to strengthen decision making capabilities of people especially children/teenagers so that they are aware of the risks in life and know how to manage themselves essentially mind to save them from wrong doings to themselves and others. My ides of a game is for pleasure/fun and as a tool to train the human's mind to become more mindful to avoid and reduce risks of self damage and to "injure" others. At the same time, it will encourage positive living together. It is my initial idea and I still need all supports in the development. 1:name -- Len Woodrow user_email -- oceanedit@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- It is virtually unanimous in every book or article dealing with Buddhism that Siddhartha Gautama is The Buddha. However, the following description of his conception (probably mythical) is captivating since it repeats the earlier Greek stories of gods impregnating damsels on Earth and, of course, the similarity to the biblical story of Jesus some 500 years later. Can anyone tell me where this version originated or direct me to a source who may help? . . . . "Yes, I have visited the Buddhist site you refer to; the "Life of Buddah" recanted there differs slightly from other accounts of his life that I have read. Like the bible, no two translations (renditions?) are identical. It is interesting that 650 years before the birth of Christ (Immaculate Conception) the Buddah was born to a barren woman after angels had bathed her in the (holy) Ganges. Even earlier, Zeus was in the habit of leaving Mount Olympus for sojurns with pretty young maidens on Earth, thus siring a raft of demigods Mayans blamed the Sun God for doing the same thing." 1:name -- kusy user_email -- fsn@amaravati.org 3:feedback -- new thing 1:name -- k user_email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- new smaaet 1:name -- kusi user_email -- bmind@ndirect.co.uk 3:feedback -- this is it 1:name -- swarthty user_email -- awshite@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- tu'k bollyguong navajo for "Pure water white man" love the sight- I haven't beeen able to sit still on ine site in a while. Check out juliana spahr, charlie smith for poetry. also alan tate and david schubert and brian patten, phew.. ( I am assuming you know all the buddha tao web sites ( yak rider ) -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 1:name -- annie pyers user_email -- pyers.anne@bssc.edu.au 3:feedback -- Hi I would like to ask your permission to use the image of the buddha with the space earth in the background as part of my presentation on the learning process to educators in Australia. I am hoping this will be OK 1:name -- John Harrison user_email -- john@aotea.org 3:feedback -- Cool, I found you :o) Hi from dusty London... Keep in touch! http://www.aotea.org/john/ 1:name -- Pamela user_email -- pammaclean@ns.sympatico.ca 3:feedback -- Stars see calm Peace goes love No still after storm Yes you smile at me Pale you before me Run in run with Sun sky cloud Birds fall I have (This is my contribution to the fridge poetry but I was enable to submit it from that page. Thanks) 1:name -- ratana Mata user_email -- mayallbehappy@merry-meet.zzn.com 3:feedback -- Please forward this to anyone who can give blessings Reverend Sir or Lady, May we and all our relatives be safe and secure May we and all our relatives be happy at heart May we and all our relatives want to prevent and abandon doings that lead to someones downfall. May we and all our relatives want to do doings that lead to Blessings. Blessed Be everyone and merry meet. Thank you for taking time to read this letter. This letter is written to ask the help of priests(esses) and contemplatives (F/M) who are willing to give blessings to all who ask for it by Email. I am in the proces of shaping a home page out of the unshaped. On this homepage I want to give all priests and contemplatives the opportunity to bless people if they request it. Anyone from any religion is more then welcome. Imagine the beneficial effect to the world of all these requested blessings .... There are a few things I want to be sure of though and I think of them as requisite conditions. I want to know what you base your blessing on, what is about and how you do it and I want to be sure that you dont cause beings to engage in criminal behaviour. On the homepage people can select a page and there they can sent a eformmail. As a result you will get a email and in that email you will get a request for a blessing; a email adress and a short description. You can then do the things you do to give the requested blessing. So please do it or if you know of some other priest or contemplative please forward this mail to them. The still very unfinished homepage can be found on http://www.freehomepages.com/noticedbygod and your mail can reach me on mayallbehappy@merry-meet.zzn.com (Somehow the password to this email adress is unclear to me, so please use the above adress, I cant access the mailbox of this one). Well as a psychiatric patient or as a person with a sick mind am I not very good in giving blessings. So please, please bless us and all our relatives as well, as well as those(and our relatives) who contributed to you getting this mail. May all beings be safe and secure May all beings be happy at heart May all beings want to prevent and abandon doings that lead to someones downfall. May all beings want to do doings that lead to blessings. Ratana Mata Blessed Be everyone! Merry part and perhaps ... merry meet again. 1:name -- Sukanda user_email -- sukhanda@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Ajarn Kasalo: I want to be part of helping the site. I only know how to programming. I am in developing / programming business application field, but not an web designer artist. I know how to programm but I am very poor in designing or drawing. Please feel free to email me know if any thing I can do to help. Would you please list software name that Ajahn need, If I see any good price to buy, I would like to make donation in that way ? I am very impressd with this web site. Sukanda 1:name -- Kala Perkins user_email -- kala.perkins@anu.edu.au 3:feedback -- Hello, A dear friend has referred me to your site. I am a Buddhist nun doing uni studies at the moment and have just written a paper about the interface between science and religion, particularly Buddhism and Prajna Paramita with physics and cosmology. I think a copy for your site links might be nice. Please let me know if you would like one; its about ten pages long. Cheers in dharma, Kala Perkins 1:name -- Louise Craig user_email -- anicca@xtra.co.nz 3:feedback -- Hi Just wanted to give some feedback about the site. I find it more difficult to navigate around now -than before. I used to use it to find helpful info but after three tries of not locating what I am looking for I'm going to use another site. Just thought I'd let you know my experience. With metta Louise 1:name -- kusy user_email -- fsn@amaravati.org 3:feedback -- this is my messa 1:name -- greek user_email -- fsn@amaravati.org 3:feedback -- my news 1:name -- name user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- Liam Clarke user_email -- liam.clarke@sunday-times.co.uk 3:feedback -- Its a very innovative and inspiring site. Thanks for providing it. The link to the Buddhist Sunday School isn't currently working. Could you possibly let me know when and if it is back up, Metta Liam Clarke 1:name -- Jane user_email -- jane@wadleynet.com 3:feedback -- Not really news yet (Ajahn K please don't publish this , just showing willing and telling you about something that will be happening) But on sunday 5th Oct it is Gratitude to parents day at Amaravati, and some of the members of my meditation group are going, taking our kids too (hoping they will play outside while Ajahn Sumedo talks!) Looking forward to seeing how this first time in a UK monastery (for the kids) will be, starting to introduce family life and monastery traditions to each other. Kathina unfortunately falls at Chithurst on my elder daughter's 4th birthday and at Amaravati on my younger daughter's 2nd birthday, and it did not seem right yet to take them on a long drive when we would normally be having birthday tea at home etc. Maybe in years to come - anyway that is why you wil not have news for the newsletter about Kathina from me, but I hope someone somewhere will have some as it should be a good family friendly day. still too verbose, will try and be more concise! 1:name -- ian user_email -- ian@badhair.net 3:feedback -- Here lies a newspaper that is as its name suggests, full of positive news. http://www.positivenews.org.uk/ 1:name -- April user_email -- hersheycurtis@earthlink.net 3:feedback -- I am so curious: does anyone know how did Buddha die? I only can find in stories that he did die at age 80 and that he was severely ill, but what was the exact cause of death? If you know, please pass the info on to me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! 1:name -- Ann Braun user_email -- a.braun@tasman.net 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn, I have benefitted from your site for several years, often returning and always finding new treasures. Today I was astounded to learn that we are neighbors. I live in Nelson and am a member of the Chandrakirti community in the Tibetan tradition. I feel a special affinity for the Gandhari-style head of the Buddha. Perhaps greek ethnicity explains why my attention was drawn to the obviously greek style. Or maybe there is something karmic at work, but in any case for me, an unsurpassed serenity and love emanates from the face of the Buddha. Could you tell me where you came upon this image? Is there a full version? I am actually looking for a sculptor who could make a statue based on this image. Any ideas? With best regards, Ann 1:name -- Just user_email -- Tomboodts@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- hello , GREAT site i like it very very very very much thank u :) id like to send a poem but cant find the email adres ? so ill send one here and hope u send one to me so i can send one to u ... o.O this is confusing but thank u very much haha this site is so funny and full of widom thank u bb now may u go well hihi bb 1:name -- Just user_email -- Tomboodts@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- hello , GREAT site i like it very very very very much thank u :) id like to send a poem but cant find the email adres ? so ill send one here and hope u send one to me so i can send one to u ... o.O this is confusing but thank u very much haha this site is so funny and full of widom thank u bb now may u go well hihi bb 1:name -- Claudia Spawls user_email -- cspawls@espresso.co.uk 3:feedback -- Dear Mr Kusalo I am a Researcher for Espresso Education, the U.K.’s leading broadband education company. Serving the educational sector since 1997, we are an award-winning service that delivers video-rich, highly interactive teaching and learning resources to over 1,200 Primary and Secondary schools across the county. We also transmit our service to other learning environments, such as libraries, homes, community learning centres and other educational institutions. Espresso offers simple, instant and reliable access to a virtual library of digital resources including such elements as: full-screen video, multi-media activities, online news articles, photo/image archive and printable resources. A very popular feature of Espresso Education’s service is the collection of websites that are relevant to the National Curriculum. With the permission of the site owners, these are cached within Espresso and downloaded to the schools for immediate access in the classroom. We feel that certain pages on your site provide ideal educational resources for children studying Buddhism for RE. We would like to include pages from your site within Espresso. In particular we would like to cache the ‘Buddhabyte' page, located at: http://buddhamind.info/riteside/abc/cyberbuddhas.htm and the relvant linked sections from that page, i.e. Buddhist Icons, ABC Buddhism, Meditation and Grass. Your participation will benefit teachers and learners ~Provides them with interactive resources that stimulate teaching and learning ~Allows entire classrooms access to useful websites simultaneously, even in schools which don’t have multiple Internet connections or broadband ~Provides them with quick and instant access to educational content ~Provides them with a safe environment to research and browse vetted, educationally relevant websites Your participation will benefit your organisation ~Provides you with exposure to over 1,200+ schools and 275,000+ students all over the UK ~Puts you in the company of other Espresso partners including London Grid for Learning, Northern Grid for Learning, East of England Broadband Network, and more ~Underlines your credibility as Espresso is trusted and respected by teachers and pupils alike ~Demonstrates your commitment to education: helping teachers stimulate curriculum delivery and motivate students in their quest to learn Please see the additional text below to find out more about why Espresso caches websites. If you would like to see how we use cached websites in Espresso, please let me know and I will provide you with a password for our online demo site. To find out more about Espresso Education, visit our website www.espresso.co.uk (please note that this is not the Espresso subscription service). If you are happy to participate, then please sign and return the attached form by either fax (0044 208 237 1201) or email (cspawls@espresso.co.uk). No further work will be involved on your part. Your pages will be fully credited with author details, copyright information and the homepage address. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on 0044 208 237 1235. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Best Regards, Claudia Spawls Researcher Espresso Education Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6 9RL United Kingdom Espresso Education - Official Sponsor of the DFES Launch of Citizenship 2002/3 1:name -- Shao user_email -- webmaster@shao-lin.zzn.com 3:feedback -- Ajahn: I feel so at home on this site, its wonderful. I have started my pages on my slice of the mind, and see you need help with coding pages here. Take a look at my pages and let me know what you want, i can probably code it, take some of the weight off your shoulders. Drop me a line, and let me know. 1:name -- name user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- Doug user_email -- doug.tsaldaris@colaik.com 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- Latha Gunatunga user_email -- slsco.flame@ntlworld.com 3:feedback -- 25th October 2003 we are having a meditation and dhamma discussion at the Friends meeting house Letchworth, Hertfordshire from 2.30pm till 5.00pm. If interested call for more information and map. Tel 01462-686075 1:name -- Ian Ramsden user_email -- ianramsden@paradise.net.nz 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn Kusalo, Hi, the site looks good, though it will take me a while to get around the whole thing. It was nice to catch up with you again. Happy end of Vassa. Metta Ian 1:name -- Martha Roe user_email -- Martha@yodaley.fsnet.co.uk 3:feedback -- Hi Kusalo Have tried to send a message from the website never sure it works> So just doouble checking. Have taken kids around Oz this summer had agreat time meeting up with Mums family and visiting the amazing sites - Ayers rock was one. What is your advice on how best to use this site at the dharma school? Or is there a something we can offer the site ? Can take it to staff meeting is ther a kids section ? All is well Peter Murdock is new Head came from Ukia - near Abyagiri Hopes all is good with you All the best Martha 1:name -- Mark user_email -- Mark@Tricycle.com 3:feedback -- Hello, We have a weekly teaching section on our website for Tricycle magazine. We post the teachings for one week and they are usually around 600 words. I would like to request posting an excerpt from your teaching section on the 4 noble truths. We would include a link to you website at the bottom of the excerpt. Plese let me know if that's ok. Thank you. Mark Phillips Tricycle Magazine 212-645-1143 1:name -- lily user_email -- madmoo_3@msn.com 3:feedback -- i would like to let any person or group who may be interested that it is the young persons retreat at amaravati monastery in hertfordshire on the 28th of november until the 30th of november.you need to be aged thirteen to nineteen years. 1:name -- Henry Riekels user_email -- htdharma@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- I recieved your welcome message, and confirmation of my user name and pass word. The system, however, did not accept the password even exactly as it was sent back to me. Please help. 1:name -- selamat user_email -- selamat@dsgb.or.id 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- tjuhanda user_email -- dzuanda@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- shirley Jensen user_email -- surelyfun1@aol.com 3:feedback -- I have discovered your website. I enjoyed reading about the path. I am new and yet the religion is part of my culture. It has been a given fact that we are buddhist, but to review and research the purpose of its existence has become more meaningful to my life today. I will revisit you again Thank your for your knowledge that you share with us 1:name -- shirley Jensen user_email -- surelyfun1@aol.com 3:feedback -- I have discovered your website. I enjoyed reading about the path. I am new and yet the religion is part of my culture. It has been a given fact that we are buddhist, but to review and research the purpose of its existence has become more meaningful to my life today. I will revisit you again Thank your for your knowledge that you share with us 1:name -- Zawtika user_email -- zawtika2001@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- I'am a monk. I came from Burma. I want to contet Your wed. Now I live in USA. 1:name -- Zawtika user_email -- zawtika2001@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- I'am a monk. I came from Burma. I want to contet Your wed. Now I live in USA. 1:name -- KL Leo user_email -- leo@lioncity.net 3:feedback -- Hi, I am the webmaster of http://www.e-sangha.com , the biggest online community that acts as a forum and discussion board for followers of Mahayana, Theravada, Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. On average, our website received 40,000 hits daily! I had visited http://www.buddhamind.info/ and I was impressed with the materials for kids on your website. Recently, we had set up a directory of links to selected website.I had wanted to include buddhamind.info inside our database and I would love to have you include us in your Links section as well. I think this will benefit Access to Insight as well as E-Sangha. You can rest assure that I will put Buddhamind.info on the front page (recommended section) of our directory. If this sounds good to you, please do include us in your comprehensive links. Name: E-Sangha - The Buddhist Community URL: http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php Description: Virtual community that acts as a forum for followers of Mahayana, Tibetan, Theravada and Zen Buddhism. Thanks for reading this note and I hope you'll consider our proposal. Regards KL Leo Webmaster http://www.e-sangha.com 1:name -- Rod Drew user_email -- roddrew2002@yahoo.co.uk 3:feedback -- or Rod Drew at stuparod@madasafish.com .. Dear Ajahn Kusalo, I see you've made it to Wellington NZ. Please look up William of www.stupa.org.nz and give warm gretings. He has a great web site too. I've been a tad busy - there's a new Stupa in Cambridge UK, 7.2m tall, northern Indian, see link on stupa.org.nz Stupas undr construction - F.W.B.O. - that way you see Williams site too.. I had hoped to phone you but we are 12 hours out of sync now! I've had a small glitch with 'my' stupa :- 'people' think stupas are only real if they contain relics. I'm scrabbling for a canonical or authoritative quote that confirms 'Dharma' stupa, such as those in the Ajanta/Bhaja caves. Ideas? yours in t'dharma Rod Drew! 1:name -- Sherida Carrick user_email -- sherida@dynamicresumes.com.au 3:feedback -- I just registered and then tried to get in and could not. What did I do wrong? Would appreciate your assistance. Thank You. PS Fascinating site - just found it! 1:name -- Ciaran Farrell user_email -- ciaran.farrell@iolfree.ie 3:feedback -- Hi, I couldn't find a link to send you comments so I'll just use this if I may. Just wanted to say how wonderful I think your site is. Lots of time, effort and creativity went into this and I very much appreciate it. All the very best for you all. Yours sincerely, Ciaran. 1:name -- charlie orr user_email -- charliejorr@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Have sent a picture of a sculpture I've recently finished called The Journey - inspired by the three jewels. Make of it what you will. Best Wishes Charlie 1:name -- Dick Allen user_email -- dick.allen40@ntlworld.com 3:feedback -- Hi Kusalo Remember me? I walked with you and Peter Mennim round Ely cathedral in UK but also have met you various times. Just having quick look at your site and may do more on it another time Expect NZ weather better than here now as we move into winter Cheers for now Dick 1:name -- Susan Lloyd user_email -- lloydy50@hotmailcom 3:feedback -- Why does it say Right Brian on the home page? 1:name -- Steve user_email -- vestan@comcast.net 3:feedback -- I just found your site and really enjoy the layout and wealth of information I see here. I have been going through a lot of spiritual crises lately (Probably all my life). And I have visited here to attempt some more inner peace and understanding on how I can use my knowledge and wisdom to work for a better tomorrow. Feel free to read what I have written about my spiritual journeys at http://www.livejournal.com/~vestan 1:name -- Elena user_email -- ejc_balari@mail.com 3:feedback -- Dears Friends, I find this is a very good site for those who would like to attain Nibbana. I wonder if you would like to have this site translated into Spanish sometime. It would be a pleasure for me to translate any kind of material into Spanish which is my first language. I have been a translator for 21 years and perhaps it might be of some use for you. Sincerely Yours, Elena Balari 1:name -- ian user_email -- ian@badhair.net 3:feedback -- An anecdote. I recall a monk recently returned from a conference and among those speaking was the Dalai Lama. The monk told how as he exited te conference a journalist began to question the Dalai Lama, eventaully asking: "How would you describe your work, whay is your job?" The Dalai Lama thought for a moment then replied: " I suppose I'm in rebirth control." 1:name -- staporn user_email -- staporns@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Namasakarn Laung Por 1:name -- charlie user_email -- charliejorr@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Greetings Ajhan Kusalo, As you know I am currently studying with your Sutta class and am finding it very interesting and informative. Your site is a college of excellence as far as teaching methods are concerned and the blend with other ingredients is a mix that works well for me and I'm sure thousands of others. I feel very fortunate to be able to call you teacher. May you be well, May you be Happy Charlie ps. I am 51years of age and live in Edinburgh 1:name -- Marie Attard user_email -- wild_angel123@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Dear Sir/Madam, It has come to my attention from your website that you are well informed in Buddhist culture and beliefs. The knowledge and opinion you hold about this religion is of high interest to me. I am a senior, Australian high school student who is researching major symbols and iconography in Buddhism for a HSC interest study project. From my initial research, Buddhist symbolism includes the eight auspicious symbols, the Buddhist flag, images within the Buddhist shrine and an example of Buddhist iconography is the Buddha image/figure. I would greatly appreciate if you could please fill out the following short, simple survey about your views on Buddhist symbols and iconography. Please return it via e-mail to wild_angel123@hotmail.com (please type your answer below each question). Thank you for taking the time to do so. Your help is not only necessary for me to finish my HSC project, but will assist my own learning and appreciation of Buddhist culture. Your prompt reply would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Marie Attard QUESTIONS 1) If you are a Buddhist, why did you choose this religion and what do you gain from being part of the Buddhist community? 2) Do you play any specific role within Buddhism (e.g professionally, active participant) and how long have you taken on this role? Has your role ever changed? 3) Where are Buddhist symbols and iconography used/found and what is their purpose? 4) How long have Buddhist symbols and iconography been used within the religion and have they always been used for the same purpose? 5) Why is it necessary to have Buddhist symbols and iconography? 6) What Buddhist symbols and iconography are generally considered most important and why? 7) What value/importance do you place on the iconography and symbolism within Buddhist culture? How do they help express Buddhist beliefs? 8) How do certain Buddhist symbolism assist you in understanding your religion? What symbols effect you the most and why? 9) Have you personally gained any insight from utilising Buddhist symbolism and iconography? 10) What is the significance of presenting human figures like Buddha? Is there any association between these figures and Buddhists that assist them or yourself in understanding or reinforcing intangible aspects of Buddhist religion? 12) Which Buddhist symbols or iconography are found within a Buddhist home and do they serve a specific use in this location? 13) Are any elements of design (line, direction, shape, colour, texture, size, tone) of key importance in the Buddhist symbols or iconography presented? If so, which ones and why? 14) What are the main materials used in creating Buddhist iconography and why? 1:name -- kamini gupta user_email -- kamini.gupta@virgin.net 3:feedback -- Dear Venerable Kusulo I have just found your website and think it's wonderful! I wonder if you remember me I did the illustrations for the 'Introduction to Meditation' question and answers book that you did a few years back - it's on the web site. I seem to have lost my copy of the book and would be really grateful if you could send me one if you have one spare. My address is: 64 Chessel St Bristol BS3 3DN thanks and good wishes Kamini 1:name -- chris user_email -- scorpia_night@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- We apologise about the letter we put in your website "Why i'm gay? prayer" could you please remove it Thank you We are sorry :( 1:name -- chris user_email -- scorpia_night@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- We apologise about the letter we put in your website "Why i'm gay? prayer" could you please remove it Thank you We are sorry :( 1:name -- Terry Hayden user_email -- buddhist@terryhayden.com 3:feedback -- Hi, Regestiered on your sitte, was sent activation email, followed link, will not accept my login.. Whats up ???? 1:name -- Chelsea user_email -- playgirl185@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Hi I'm a high school student doing a re search on "BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE AS A SYMBOL OF BELIEFS". I was just wondering if you could tell me some facts about it. If you could then that will be great Thank you your sincerely 1:name -- Nikhil modi user_email -- spacedude99@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- hi 1:name -- Liam Clarke user_email -- liam.clarke@sunday-times.co.uk 3:feedback -- I have forgotten my username and password Metta Liam 1:name -- Nina Wilson user_email -- ninawilson2002@yahoo.co.uk 3:feedback -- Ajahn, I think your site is great. As a buddhist living in a christian country I find it very isolating. Although I have non-buddist friends it would be great to contact other people that share my beliefs. A couple of tiny problems...The email pals bit asks for date of birth. DoB is something banks ask for as part of your security details, so it shouldn't really be put into the public domain. year of birth should be fine. The group search thing doesn't seem to be working. Keep up the good work Nina 1:name -- des user_email -- desmondchiong@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Invitation message From: BuddhistWellnessGroup moderator Subject: Invitation to join the BuddhistWellnessGroup group -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- desmondchiong@yahoo.com has invited you to join the BuddhistWellnessGroup group! (This invitation will expire in 7 days.) A message from desmondchiong@yahoo.com: welcome........... Join this group! -OR- REPLY to this email by clicking "Reply" and then "Send" in your email program. Yahoo! Groups is a free service that allows you to stay in touch with friends and family or meet new people who share your interests. Yahoo! Groups values your privacy. It is a violation of our service rules for members to abuse this invitation feature. If you feel this has happened, please notify us. You may also change your email preferences to stop receiving group invitations in the future. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to our Terms of Service. 1:name -- Dimitry Ivakhnenko user_email -- koleso@i.kiev.ua 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn Kusalo, Thank you very much for the resourceful website! Would you please correct the link to the Buddhas Back to Front game http://www.buddhamind.info/leftside/d-loads/bbtf-gam.zip Best regards, Dimitry Ivakhnenko http://dhamma.ru/sadhu/ 1:name -- karaniya kusumarga user_email -- kar_f2@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Indonesia-Lombok There are many Buddhist Monastry to be visited and the new one which planning for meditation centre called Vihara Giri Metta Bhawana located in Buani Village Gangga District Lombok Indonesia 1:name -- karaniya kusumarga user_email -- kar_f2@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Indonesia-Lombok There are many Buddhist Monastry to be visited and the new one which planning for meditation centre called Vihara Giri Metta Bhawana located in Buani Village Gangga District Lombok Indonesia 1:name -- The Tibetan Photo Project user_email -- your email address 3:feedback -- Please visit and link http://www.tibetanphotoproject.com For the first time, Tibetan monks in exile are using the camera to share, document and preserve thier lives and culture. Visually and respectfully, Joe Mickey 1:name -- Alejandro user_email -- alejo_leon@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Hi there, first of all I want to congratulate you for your pretty cool page. Nice to see a monk with such a cool attitude (noting that I've never met a monk in my life, I live in Colombia and as you can imagine, not many buddhists around). I'm 20 now, I've been studying Theravada buddhism since I was 12, and the question that you must have heard a million times is... among so many doctrines, sects, linages, etc. Why Theravada? What is your personal opinion? I have my own but I'd like some support over here. I'm pretty much alone at this buddhist thing:) Thanks a lot for your answer (in advanced) just hope there could be some thravada places over here he he... Bye 1:name -- Bob Ilott user_email -- bbiltt@aol.com 3:feedback -- Sorry I've forgotten my password!! 1:name -- Bob Ilott user_email -- bbiltt@aol.com 3:feedback -- I'm so sorry to be a pain but using my correct user name and password I still cnnot gain access to the sutta study site. I have tried registering but of course my details are logged against my email I have checked the usual problems such as cas sensitive etc but to no avail, have you any suggestions? Best wishes Bob 1:name -- Luc user_email -- henderickx@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Dear Sir, I visited your nice site, you have a lot of good information and illustration about Buddha and spiritual Sincerly Luc “Belgium” Owner and webdesigner from http://www.artpage.be 1:name -- Kerstin Jönhagen user_email -- kerstin.jonhagen@telia.com 3:feedback -- Hi, Some day I wanted to add your site to my favorites (bookmarks). It was a big mistake. See what was happening. This: favoriter\Buddhism\Buddha Mind - Index --(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--(--( It is not possible to delete the bookmark. AND it do not work. Why do you maked such a URL?? As a joke? Now I have your new URL as a favorite (bookmark). How can I delet it the bad one?????? Greetings Kerstin 1:name -- Leah Pruitt user_email -- Leahrp@sbcglobal.net 3:feedback -- Hi! How are you? I have been writing about the Buddha in one of my english classes for college. I would realy appreciate your input, if you could. "The gift of truth excels all other gifts". I am trying to explain what he meant by saying this, and how I feel about it. I'm not completely sure how I feel though. I believe that his statement means people need to be sincere, honest, and peaceful in order to accomplish anything positive in thier lives. Do you think I am on the right track? Please help. Thank you. L.P. :) 1:name -- Mike user_email -- Michael_Chean@msn.com 3:feedback -- fogotten sutta study username and password 1:name -- Chris Graves user_email -- cgnet@gravesnet.com 3:feedback -- Hi, I wrote to you some time ago regarding an early Buddhist temple on your site. I have two more questions for you, if you don't mind. First, where may I learn more about the development of parasols in Buddhist architecture, from parasol to finial top? It was very interesting what you say about this in your pamphlet. Second, and more importantly, I am looking for books or ideas that broach Buddhist and Hindu places of worship. What have you found helpful? I am not a specialist. I just would like a broad understanding of the category of architecture Buddhism and Hinduism requires. I am especially interested in learning more about the various meanings of stupas and also what the Japanese pagodas mean. Could you recommend anything? Or perhaps you could help me straight away. I have great respect for the pamphlet you put together on Buddhist stupas. First, I am researching the cube. Naturally I am drawn to the stylized cubical form of the harmika. Or in cases like Sanchi, the appearance of a half cube is interesting (presumably with the other half symbolically "buried" inside the upturned mound). But I am having trouble connecting pagodas with stupas. I know pagodas are the developed forms of stupas in southeastern Asian countries (mainly China and Japan). But it is hard to see the connection between the two. Where is the "harmika" in a pagoda? Where is the upturned bowl? The pagoda seems all filial tower. Where do you think rectilinear pagodas cross over with rounded stupas? I also fail to see the "squaring the circle" in pagodas, so exquisitely rendered by the bird's eye view of stupas. Is there anything that occurs to you in this regard that I may be missing? Thank you for your time and a great work, -Chris Graves 1:name -- Alvina Wong user_email -- alvwong88@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Hello, This is an email for permission of inquiry. I am currently a student attending the International Community School in Kirkland, WA. Annually, our school encourages us to partake in the National History Day competition. This competition is a compilation of presentations on historical events that are focused around a theme, this year's being exploration, encounter and exchange. This year, my partner and I have decided to participate in National History Day with a documentary. Our topic is based on the movement, encounter, and blending of Buddhism with the Chinese culture. As a part of our documentary, we were hoping to use some of the images from your site as resources. In respect to your copyright, I am hoping you will allow my partner and I to include your images in our project. If you would prefer more information before allowing us to do so, please feel free to email me back with questions and I will do my best to answer them. Thank you for your participation and time. Sincerely, Alvina Wong 1:name -- Doris user_email -- info@cinemasia.nl 3:feedback -- Hi, could you please forward this press release to the Thai community in the Netherlands? We have not so many contacts with them and would like to inform them better of these Thai films that will be playing in our festival. best regards, Doris Ng Festival director Press Release #4 5, March, 2004 The main festival of the first edition of Cinemasia will be held in the Rialto, Kriterion and KIT Tropentheater in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Over 70 feature films, shorts and documentaries will be screened in 30 programs over the Asian diaspora from Thailand to India. In addition to the films, Cinemasia has a number of special events , such as a Dutch Asian filmmakers forum, Q&A 's with many of the filmmakers, actors and other special guests . On Thursday March 25th is the hilarious Thai hit film, The Adventures of Iron Pussy. Adventures of Iron Pussy, the Director(s): M. Shaowanasai, A. Weerasethakul Country: Thailand Year: 2003 Language spoken: Thai Subtitles: English Running time: 90 minutes Genre: Comedy, Musical Date: Thursday 25 March, 20.00 hours in Rialto Director and Iron Pussy actor Michael Shaowanasai is present. A not so attractive, bald-headed employee of a 7-11 turns into the cross-dressing secret agent, the Iron Pussy who uses her sexy and charming looks to rescue people in distress. When she gets an assignment to catch a big criminal, she infiltrates a high society family as an undercover maid. She falls in love with the family's precious son and learns a secret about her own orphaned past. After the screening there's a film AfterParty in the Tjing Tjing festival lounge for Michael Shaowanasai Tickets reserveren bij Filmtheater Rialto Adres: Ceintuurbaan 338, 1072 GN Amsterdam (www.rialtofilm.nl) Ticketprijs: 7,50 of 6,00 euro met korting Reserveren: telefonisch 020 – 67 68 700 (ma t/m vr van 13.00 tot 18.00 uur) TjingTjing Festival Lounge C. Trooststraat 56, 1072 JH Amsterdam Location: nearby Rialto and Hotel Okura, Ferdinand Bol street / Rustenburger street Public transport: trams 16, 24 and 25 Ticket price: free entrance Reservations: 020 – 67 60 923 e-mail: info@cinemasia.nl website: www.cinemasia.nl 1:name -- Mary Brady user_email -- mary@realfood.org.uk 3:feedback -- My son is seven, and he read about the Buddha at school. As we are vegan he has grown up believing that all living creatures should be respected, and he was delighted to hear that Buddha felt the same. Also, we were on the anti-war protests and Seamus told me the story about Buddha standing between the warring factions of his family and their enemies, asking them what is more precious, a stretch of water, or blood. He told it so well he made me cry! He has been nagging me to find out about Buddhism, so we have explored all sorts of websites and have read various ebooks, looked at various flash cartoons (like the one you have on here) and he is now solemnly trying to learn how to meditate. I think he is better at it than me! I would just like to tell you all that my seven year old son has converted me to Buddhism. He said he liked a religion where he doesn't have to believe in God, but he does have to be kind, and do good. He says that if we were all like the Buddha then the world would be perfect. He also thinks that the world can be perfect, and he wants to do what he can to help. So thank you for being out there so that I could educate my son and myself. I am just starting out, but I am really excited by the journey. 1:name -- Chris user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- Well...We were lucky enuff to meet Ajahn Kusalo, who makes this website. What an awesome dude!!!!He came and stayed and we ate and sat and smiled 2gethr. He showed us a Beautiful Mantra.....Buddham, Buddham, Buddham Vande, Dhammam, Dhammam, Dhammam Vande, Sangham, Sangham, Sangham Vande, Buddham, Dhammam,Sangham Vande................................... thank you Ajahn. May You All Be Well!!!!! 1:name -- Mark Smith user_email -- gate.house@btconnect.com 3:feedback -- Dear Ven. Kusalo, I hope Ven Varado and others are keeping you informed about the progress we are making with the Stupa at Amaravati. Myself, Tommy and master stonemason Ben have now reached the point where will start to construct the bell-shaped lattice work to enclose the Buddha. We have been working throughout the winter and I estimate that it will be complete in another 3-4 weeks. Former Anagarika, Mark 1:name -- Yabin Yap user_email -- yyap27@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn, I am Yabin from Jakarta, Indonesia. Resently I am looking for a picture of Maitreya Buddha in the internet and I coincidently come to your website and find a beautiful picture of Maitreya Buddha. This picture was taken in the Mendut Temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I actually need to make a big size picture of Maitreya Buddha, as a present for my Master during His birthday. I am wonderig whether it is possible for you to give me the source of the picture, in high resolution. Thank you for your kind attention. Looking forward to hearing from you. With prayers, yabin 1:name -- Laurens from Hawaii user_email -- lau@gmx.at 3:feedback -- if you like buddha statues, you can find some on our website at: www.buddhawelt.com or if you like to have some free books about buddhism, please contact us... we are also going to build a buddha garden in hawaii and in germany in the coming future...if you like to know more, please visit us online... thanks laurens 1:name -- colin sid brittain user_email -- sidsquat@yahoo.co.uk 3:feedback -- I look at the clouds and see shapes of peace and tranqulity. At night I look at the stars and see the inner mind of earth, like I see my inner mind when I close my eyes. I just wrote this of the top of my head. why? I dont know why? Colin Grantham, England inspired and enlightend 1:name -- Nikki Owen user_email -- happynikki@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Hello Bhante! I remember you from the Young Persons Retreat! I have a question that has been playing on my mind for a whil.. what is the Buddhist attitude towards suicide? I have just completed a course for counselling suicidal people but I'm a bit worried about the moral implications of accepting this course of action. Could you please comment on this? Much metta, Nikki 1:name -- Joy Bose user_email -- bosej@cs.man.ac.uk 3:feedback -- I seem to have forgotten the username and pasword i used when I first registered. please could you mail them to me or something. Many thanks and best wishes, Joy bose 1:name -- arfa user_email -- kusalo@amaravati.org 3:feedback -- test 1:name -- Toni user_email -- toeymk@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Hiya everybody I'm only new here so if anyone wants to chat,reply pronto 1:name -- Aaron user_email -- aaron0051@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- On this page: http://www.buddhamind.info/riteside/index.htm It should be "bail" not "bale." 1:name -- Suravira user_email -- suravira@deerparksangha.net 3:feedback -- I have downloaded your instructions for sewing a sanghati, but the document does not include overall dimensions (length & width) of the outer garment? Any suggestions? 1:name -- Jonathan user_email -- jon@tdshawaii.com 3:feedback -- Hi. How do I send in a poem? Thanks. 1:name -- Laurie Corzett user_email -- libramoon42@mindspring.com 3:feedback -- You are invited Please check out: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seerseeker Please join and help to form what we become. group birth data: October 17, 2003 8:52 pm EDT Boston, MA/www -or - if you know of anyone you think would be interested, please feel free to send this invitation on to them. Chironic Vision, Part I The future descends from the fear-embroidered skies the vision is of holocaust -- when everybody dies A new day is dawning, but is it sun or storm? We have a chance to make our mark but is it right or wrong? The military marches The anti-warriors too We take our stand in battle The many and the few Spinning tales of magic, of wizardry and fate We want to know just how it ends before it's all too late We sing our song too late We right our wrongs too late We want to know the date To find a better fate Can I tell you? Can I help you to know or understand? Can I utter the words that will make you see me? Standing here before you, I want to take your hand to be swirled up into a magical dancing to be taken to worlds of beauty entrancing to give you the will and the wonder to set you free. Can you see me? Laurie Corzett - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8401 1:name -- Julia user_email -- david_julia@btinternet.com 3:feedback -- Hi, I'm researching and reading about Buddhism as I have been drawn to it for some years - but haven't actually commited as yet. I have a very elementary query regarding mudras and am hoping you can help. Many figures have the right hand in bumispara and the left in dhyana. What is the meaning of the latter please? Also, is there meaning behind the sacred nature of the lotus flower and the fact that the sitting position is called lotus? I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you. 1:name -- Aidan Bartley user_email -- bartley.a@btinternet.com 3:feedback -- Hello I wonder if you could help me please? I'm head of RE at Queensbury Upper School in Dunstable and I'm putting together a course on Buddhism for our year 9 students. I'm searching for a really clear, detailed and colour picture of a wheel of life. It must be of a resolution that lends itself to being printed at A4 size onto an A4 transparency for use in the classroom with overhead projectors. I'm not having much luck. There are a number on the web but of poor resolution. Also I'm worried about copyright. I'm willing to purchase if that's an option. I'd be most grateful if you have any ideas. Thanks Aidan 1:name -- John Smith user_email -- neobodhisattva@comcast.net 3:feedback -- Hello, My name is John. I am a beginner Buddhist, although I guess we all are, and always will be. I am 24 years old, and have been intensely studying the teachings of Buddha. I am currently a graduate student of philosophy at Boston College in Boston, MA, and received an Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. I just wanted to tell you that your website is a diamond in the rough in the sea of information that is the Internet. As I haphazardly scoured the web in search of the Dharma, I feel that finding this site was truly an unfolding. Since I became ardently engaged in my Buddhist studies, about 8 months ago, your website has bean a beacon of truth, a genuine guide, and has proffered an incredibly fresh and multifaceted perspective on, and approach to, Buddhism and Buddhist thought. I cannot imagine the immense amount of time that you have invested in this project, but I assure you that it has all been well worth while. You are doing an extraordinary job of conveying the Dharma, and I thank you. I'll soon be fairly busy with school, as I am starting classes next week, but I would really like to make the time to help and contribute to this site. Good luck in all that you do. Namaste, John Smith 1:name -- John Smith user_email -- neobodhisattva@comcast.net 3:feedback -- Sorry, I just recently sent an email and saw that there would be no reply unless indicated. If possible, I would very much like a response, if only to let me know that my email was received. Thank you, John Smith 1:name -- John Smith user_email -- neobodhisattva@comcast.net 3:feedback -- How do I email a .gif of a poem I made from the refridgerator magnets page? I looked on Buddhaminders and tried from this email link, but no luck. Sorry for the bother. Om Manu Padme Hum, John Smith 1:name -- Paul user_email -- pfleer@zenwind.com 3:feedback -- Greetings! What a wonderful site! I have visited it many times since discovering it some days ago. I have been building a daily practice routine to include a morning and evening puja to open sittings. In listening to the Pali "Morning Chanting" MP3 file in the Downloads-Sounds section of your site, I felt compelled to chant along. Would you be so kind as to tell me the source of this clip? Do you have any information about the group chanting it? Are there other clips available (or perhaps a CD or tape) that include the full traditional morning (and evening) puja chanted by the same group? I am most grateful for your attention to my questions. I wish you peace and happiness, and with this breath...Metta! paul 1:name -- Rodrigo Rudiger user_email -- rodrigo@grupodomo.com.br 3:feedback -- Hi, I am writing to you from a Brazilian Magazine called Qualidade de Vida, something like Life Quality, which is about means of achieving harmony, both mental and physical. We are doing now a special issue about Buddhism, that will feature a bonus cover CD with songs. Surfing the web in search of songs which fit our intentions, I’ve found the link http://www.buddhamind.info/leftside/index.htm It would be great if we could have your authorization to include the next songs in this cover CD: - Anicca vata Sankhara - Pharitvana Mettam - Imina Puñña - Jayanto - Jewelled lotus flower - Metta Sutta - Morning Chanting - Namo Sakyamuni Buddha - Sabitiyo - Namo Sakyamuni Buddha We will give full credit and print some information about the artists featured in the CD (webpage, e-mail...) and a brief resumé. If you find this idea interesting, just let me know. And if you need more information, just ask. You can also check our publishing company's website at www.digerati.com.br Hope to hear soon from you. Kind regards, Rodrigo Rudiger Editor 1:name -- Carl Hendrickson user_email -- carl.hendrickson@btinternet.com 3:feedback -- Just saying hello, earlier this year I stopped with some monks in north east Thailand who claimed to know the chap who runs their organisation in England. Had an amazing time meditating and learning although it was very basic living conditions! If there is a way of contacting the monks in Thailand I would like to pass on my thanks and say hello to them.Any help contacting them would be appreciated 1:name -- Jim user_email -- jmagaw@email.unc.edu 3:feedback -- I found the song "Butterfly" among the downloads on the website, but I cannot find who wrote this song. Can you tell me who the songwriter is? Many thanks. Jim 1:name -- Max user_email -- wishmax@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Dear Sir/Madam, I am a design student from the Massey University. I am currently working on a design project, where I am simulating a Buddhist festival held at the Events Centre and the Frank Kitts Park. Because it is involving environmental and graphic design so I need some of your assistance. Can you please provide me the logo/identity of your organisation. It will be kind if the files can be in these formats: either photoshop file, freehand file, illustrator file or any other form as long as they are usable on the computer. Look forward to hearing from you, thank you. yours faithfully, Max Massey University 1:name -- name user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- I am a Buddhism teacher in Indonesia. Buddhism in Indonesia grow up fastly. I also need some information in outside. 1:name -- Graham Harrison user_email -- graham@harripix.com 3:feedback -- Dear Buddhamind, You are using two photographs from the book LIVING BUDDHISM on your web-site without permission. These photograph are india-2.JPG, and tibet-2JPG, and are part of your collection of free downloadable Buddha images. All photographer's images are copyright protected under the 1988 Design and Copyright Act. Would you be kind enough to contact me regarding this matter. Yours sincerely, Graham Harrison 1:name -- ratanamata user_email -- mayallbehappy@metta.lk 3:feedback -- Urgent Help needed from Buddhists/layfollowers (version 2) Merry meet layfollower and Blessed be. May we and all our relatives be safe and secure May we and all our relatives be happy at heart May we and all our relatives want to prevent and abandon doings that lead to someones downfall. May we and all our relatives want to do doings that lead to blessings. Hello my name is Ratanamata and I live in the Netherlands and I wrote this letter because am facing a difficult time here in which I need your help urgently. It also contains a Sutta from the Buddha in reply to the question of a Sakyan about what a layfollower is and what can be done by them. I need help with finding a Buddhist lawyer and a hermitage place to stay more permanently, financial help is also welcome. Please help me or forward this letter to someone who can help me. And if you don’t want to help, please don’t respond at all; it is less painfull than if you refuse to help and wish me lots of goodwill or loving kindness or by being banned by people who state (confess) this as an opening line ; “Better it is to walk alone: There is no fellowship with fools. Walk alone, harm none, and know no conflict; Be like a tusker in the woods alone." The Life of the Buddha by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, p.113. I also hope that you paid enough respect to your teachers in the past in order to be able to read this request to the end. Please help me. The problem I need help with came to my attention when I was caught up by the police and brought to the police office for questioning. I was accused of sexual misconduct with a four year old. I took refugee to Yama. Yama is the deity that judges us at death and one of the questions he asks is if one saw the convicted criminal. If one didn't see it one can end up in hell. I don't see myself guilty of any of the charges; this is a undesirable situation for I am innocent, I tried to help and give an accurate statement of what had happened for the best of my ability. I was told that I would be hold in custody there for three days and then I would face a officer of justice and a judge-commissioner who would decide if I could be hold there longer for further investigation. The interrogation lasted one and a half day and after shortly before the second day was finished was I released. I was told the hearing could(!) be in half a year or so and that if I didn't went there then they have a name for that, there appears also the possibility that they would let go of it. I would get a letter. The detectives advised me not to return home, even if I was to be declared innocent later on. Thus I entered some sort of homeless state by accident. Homeless in the Netherlands is illegal and in my case one needs to have an address in order to get financial help for a lawyer. Because I just rebuild the dwelling(everything new inside) am I in debts. I am not registered there therefore am I in desperate need of an address. I need a buddhist lawyer who can help a four year old child to notice her own behavior in the past. The Buddha seemed to have recommended that a good buddhist knows the laws of his country and I because I had other things to do in the past I failed in that. But now it comes all at once and it's a lot, but on the other hand it's a great opportunity to get to know it anyway. I contacted a lawyer who is specialized in this area in Alkmaar but to me he doesn't appear as one endowed with Buddhist virtues. I am not content with any help. It has to be help from a layfollower according to the Sutta below where a member of the Sakyan clan asks the Buddha a question. I also prefer Uposatha observers. And in order to make this more clear do I want to make an attempt to a small roar; "There were no hermits found in the Thai-, Mahathera-, Pali-, Mahayana-, Vajrayana-, Thera-, Japanese-, Reiki-, Zen- or Vietnamese traditions!" And as I am sending this letter I think that it is better if we don't meet at all. Because I tried to reformat the Sutta in its original state, I think of it as a new intellectual property and therefore the previous copyrights that hindered me in the giving and sharing of buddha's original teachings became invalid. Samyutta Nikaya 55.37. Mahanama. Original translator Rev. Bodhi. Boston,Wisdom publications ISBN 0-86171-168-8. Thus I have heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling among the Sakyans at Kapilavatthu in Nigroda's park. Then Mahanama the Sakyan approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down at one side and said to him: "Venerable sir, in what way in one a layfollower?" "When Mahanama, one has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha, one is then a layfollower." "In what way, venerable sir, is a layfollower accomplished in virtue?" "When Mahanama, a layfollower abstains from destruction of life, from taking what is not given, from sexual misconduct, from false speech, and from wines, liquor and intoxicants that are the basis for negligence, then a layfollower is accomplished in virtue." "In what way, venerable sir, is a layfollower accomplished in faith?" "Here Mahanama, a layfollower is a person of faith. He places his faith in the enlightenment of the Tathagata thus:"The Blessed One is an Arahant, perfectly enlightened, accomplished in true knowledge and conduct, fortunate, knower of the world, unsurpassed leader of persons to be tamed, teacher of devas and humas, the Enlightened One, the Blessed One." In that way a layfollower is accomplished in faith. "In what way, venerable sir, is a layfollower accomplished in generosity?" "Here, Mahanama, a layfollower dwells at home with a mind devoid of the stain of stinginess, freely generous, open handed, delighting in relinquishment, one devoted to charity, delighting in giving and sharing. In that way a lay follower is accomplished in generosity." "In what way, venerable sir, is a lay follower accomplished in wisdom?" "Here Mahanama, a layfollower is wise, he possesses wisdom directed to arising and passing away, which is noble and penetrative, leading to the complete destruction of suffering. In that way a layfollower is accomplished in wisdom." So please help me or forward this letter to someone who can help me. Again, I am looking for a Buddhist lawyer and a living place in the Netherlands where I can register so that I can get financial aid to finance the lawyer. I prefer a solitary place in the woods. Thank you. R.Huis in ‘t veld Postbus 432 5500 AK Veldhoven Netherlands For financial help I will give you my banknumbers : IBANnr : NL87ABNA0430151314 BICnr: ABNANL2A (accountnr: 430151314) May all beings be safe and secure May all beings be happy at heart May all beings want to prevent and abandon doings that lead to someones downfall. May all beings want to do doings that lead to blessings. Ratanamata 1:name -- Venerable Subhuti. user_email -- subhuti_1961@yahoo.co.uk 3:feedback -- Dear friends please do keep in touch thanks 1:name -- Teilo Courtier-Lilley user_email -- raelilley@aol.com 3:feedback -- Hello Ajahn Kusalo We met a long time ago when you were in Wales and I was only a baby. Mummy tells me that you were there at their wedding ceremony (which was also my first birthday) and that you made a web site for them. Anyway the other day I remembered visiting you. Mum was talking about taking food to people and I remembered we took food to you (which mum said was quite impressive because it was so long ago and i was only a baby). Anyhow mum said it would be really nice to find out how you are and what you are doing now. Then last night it was fireworks and a huge lantern procession and we met someone from Amaravati who was visiting and they told us about this web site. We thought about sending a picture but we can't quite work out how to do it. Anyway, let us know how you are and what has happened to you. Oh and I forgot to say, I went to a thich naht han family retreat in the summer and at the end of it took the two promises which meant I had to prostrate myself a couple of times in front of some nuns and other people and take refuge in the buddha and I got a buddha name (friendly oak of the heart). Mum says to tell you that she didn't force me at all, in fact she kept telling me I didn't have to do it but I wanted to and I like having a buddha name. But the best thing of all - I taught them all "there's old buddha...." which they didn't know, but which is one of my favourite songs. mummy thinks its down to you that we know that song..... Anyway, be well love Teilo (mummy sends her love too) (don't you think my writing is coming on well - since I am only five!!!) 1:name -- Jessica Flodin user_email -- jessicaflodin@gmail.com 3:feedback -- I want to learn more about buddhism and I would like to spend 4-6 months to do only this. Maybe to live, study and work in a monastary. Do you have any advise how to come in contact with a teacher to help me? I'm a woman, 23 years old, looking for somewhere to get introduced to eastern wisdom. Asia or anywhere else. Greetings from Sweden /Jessica Flodin 1:name -- dhammika serene ang user_email -- yinfern289@yahoo.com.sg 3:feedback -- HI!its great to discover such treasure on your website! IM the curriculm executive for sunday children dharma sch in KMS of Singapore. My job is to arrange and compose songs; write, direct and produce skits and musicals; and eventually (at least my vision) to set up a choir and/or production house. Im interested to produce your musicals, however as im just taking over the job, im planning for an in-house production for the moment. I will like to get the audio files of the tunes your team has been using for (i) the singing chickens and (ii) metta song for the skits. Im also impressed by the quality of the music compositions and script writings, and will like to know the direct people to contact for ideas and consultation. Greatly appreciate your help and its a blessing to be touched by your work. metta Dhammika Serene Ang Curriculum Executive Education, Bodhi Heart Sat/Sun Sch 1:name -- venkat reddy user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- venkat reddy user_email -- venkatrm04yahoo.com 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- venkat reddy user_email -- venkatrm04yahoo.com 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- name user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- name user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- Geoff Bamford user_email -- geoffrey.bamford@ocbs.org 3:feedback -- Hi The Oxford centre for Buddhist Studies is now (just) up and running. We have a pledge from the Numata fund for the endowment of a Professor-of-Buddhist-Studies post. +++ The OCBS is a project od the Society for the Wider Understanding of the Buddhist Tradition. Under the Society also comes the Buddhist Learning Network. There is a BLN Open day at Wolfson College Oxford on Sunday December 5th at 3 pm. Best Geoff 1:name -- Pavaro Bhikkhu user_email -- ven_pavaro@yahoo.ca 3:feedback -- Greetings Ajahn Kusalo. Ajahn Viradhammo (who was just here) hasn't replied to me with your address just yet so I decided to take matters into my own fingers. I'm very impressed by your site! We're told you may be able to come to Birken Monastery in Feb, which is very welcome news. Ajahn Sona has asked me to write to say that you'd be welcome for all of the winter retreat if you'd like. My address is fine to reply to, or you can write to meditate@birken.ca. with respect and good wishes, PvB ps hmmm ... the last time (and first) I wrote to someone in this way was a fan letter to jazz bass great, Charlie Haden... 1:name -- larry user_email -- qdog7052@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- i would love to learn more about buddha 1:name -- Peter Hansen user_email -- Chiaroscurian@msn.com 3:feedback -- I'd like to register to be part of forums and also find friends but after filling out the registration I received the message "Bad Referrer" and told to go back a page. I don't know what "Bad Referrer" means nor what to do about it. Please help me. Thanks. Peter 1:name -- Stefan user_email -- stefan@aracaria.com.au 3:feedback -- Hello, I think your site is very nice. I have linked to it. http://www.aracaria.com.au/study_stuff/buddhism/buddha_links.htm Hope that is ok? best Stefan www.aracaria.com.au biodynamic farm 1:name -- Daniel YEO Seng Poh user_email -- youqingren@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Dear Sir/Bhante, I am a Buddhist from Singapore. And have written and produced a few buddhist songs CD. You may want to download "Pass It On" from www.buddhanet.net for your sunday class children. Metta daniel 1:name -- Abigail Ball user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- I like to learn abuut buddhiamind because we have a brilliant Teacher call miss seamores-main .She is just a relien Teacher but i have lernt a lot in 4 weeks 1:name -- Camille user_email -- camille@lara.on.ca 3:feedback -- 3 things: How current is this site? If current I am willing to help with TIME. Thank you so much for putting it together. My heart is warmed, Camille 1:name -- David user_email -- dsputzer@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: FW: What if you could call Buddha? First, you have to find the number. Where did you put it? It’s a toll free local call and open 24 x 7. But once you got it, you still have to listen to the many paths and selection options: Ordering Sutras CD? Ritual Items? Koan of the day Chants R Us Pick a Sect: Hinyayana, Varjayana, Tibetan, Pure Land, Zen…. Doing Dana Tantra – NOTE: You must be > 18 Dogzchen Monks and Nuns Date a Buddhist Chat And one option might be "INSTALLING DHARMA" (Note: Below is a revision of "Installing Love" by author "Unknown" but appreciated) Tech Support: "Hello, how can I help you?" Customer: "Well, after some sitting and consideration, I've decided to install Dharma. Can you guide me?" Tech Support: "Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to practice?" Customer: "Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. I’ve clicked around the Web before. Tried a few Gurus. So what do I do first?" Tech Support: "The first step is to open your Heart/Mind. Find and take Refuge in the three jewels you can find there. Have you located them and cleared up your center?" Customer: "Sometimes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Dharma while they are running? I may have some Parental Viruses? And there is a lot of Cultural Noise in my area." Tech Support: "What programs are running? Are you getting any Error messages?" Customer: "Let's see, I have all kinds of Suffering: Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now. And there’s still some Anger, Ignorance and Greed." Tech Support: "No problem! Dharma will gradually erase those from your current operating system. They may remain in your permanent memory but they will no longer disrupt your other programs. Dharma will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called Confidence. However, you have to completely turn off Anger and Greed. Those programs prevent Dharma from being properly installed. Can you turn those off?" Customer: "I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?" Tech Support: "Go to your start menu. Then invoke Emptiness. Do this as many times as necessary until Anger, Greed, and Ignorance have been completely erased. Forgiveness and Compassion will replace them. But this is a 12 step program so you may need some time. We might have to do a full Recovery." Customer: (After a long silence) "Okay, done! Dharma has started installing itself. Is that normal?" Tech Support: "Yes, but remember that you only have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hear/Minds in order to get the Mahayana and Trantric upgrades. Then you’ll want to do Dzogchen or Zen for the full treatment in this lifetime." Customer: "Oops! I have another error message already. It says, "Error-Program will not run on external components. What should I do?" Tech Support: "Don't worry. Press Wisdom. Dharma program will be set up to run on External Heart/Minds once it has been run on yours. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Dharma yourself before you can give Dharma to others. You may need to rerun unconditional self acceptance if your hard drive has a physical problem." Customer: "So, what should I do?" Tech Support: "Run Self-Diagnostics. Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: I mpermanent, Just Be and Acknowledge your Limitations. Then run Take Responsibility for your own actions. Avoid future contact with Victimization Virus at all costs." Customer: "Okay. Done. I can do that." Tech Support: "Now, copy all the Dharma files to the "My Heart/Mind" directory. The Dharma system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism and other Viruses from all directories. Use Mindfulness routine as needed. Then regularly empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely clear and those viruses never come back. Next, Reboot your system." Customer: (more silence) "Got it. Hey! My Heart/Mind is filling up with new files. Joy and Bliss are playing on my monitor. Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over my Heart/Mind. Is this normal?" Tech Support: "Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually we hope everyone will get it. So your Dharma is now Installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Dharma is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you." Customer: "I promise to do just that. Thank you, Buddha. Alternative call ending Customer: By the way, who are you? (Tech Support: Just call me the Divine Cardiologist, also known as the Great Physician, or just "I AM." Most people feel all they need is an annual checkup to stay heart-healthy; but the manufacturer (ME) suggests a daily maintenance schedule for maximum Love efficiency. KEEP IN TOUCH! Note: This may be from 2003 original version, author unknown, but appreciated. Some here have used "God." ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A few days later Tech Support: "Hello, how can I help you?" Customer: "I called last week about Dharma. And I did check it out. Thought I did everything I need to do, but Emptiness does seem a bit elusive. But I do now see it’s all so temporary." Tech Support: "Tell me about your practice and what you have been doing." Customer: "In spite of my best efforts when chanting, that "washing machine" mind of mine just keeps turning over. I am always working on "stilling the mind." Tech Support: "What chant have you been using?" Customer: "Om Mani Padme Hum." Tech Support: "How many times have you done that?" Customer: "I’ve lost track." Tech Support: "A law of Mind's action/karma is not to grasp or cling at or to the inner flow." Try that. Customer: "How?" Tech Support: "Tibetan sub-routines teach to start with the brief stillness between arising thoughts. Relax. It's not a contest – just a process. " Customer: "A process? What do you mean?" Tech Support: "If your mind’s washing machine keeps recycling, then there are still some materials that need washing. Try a new mental detergent? Or just sit! Maybe you need to find that elusive Emptiness? Or you could just keep chanting that ego away!" Customer: "Maybe my washing machine is broken? Can you send out repair?" Tech Support: "Sorry, that is self service only. But I can go over some of the basics that we didn’t cover in your first call." Customer: "OK. Maybe chanting is enough for me?" Tech Support: "We need to check to see if you see the two kinds of Truth? Installed the Four Noble Truths? Run the Eightfold Path? Staying on the Middle Path? You might be enjoying the Delusion routine a bit too much? Is Emptiness still elusive?" Customer: "Gee, I’m so busy with my life I’ll have to get back to you when I have more time." Tech Support: Your call, but there’s no time like the present. You never know when that machine will go. Would you like to order the CD or take a class?" Customer: "Nope. Got to go back to my life. Bye bye Buddha." Tech Support: "May you find Peace and Happiness. Goodbye." 1:name -- Steven user_email -- yunghans@localnet.com 3:feedback -- Well I was going to send you a screen shot of the fridge magnet thing, but now it looks like the best I can do is fill out a form, not having an address to use to send the attached .jpg... Perhaps my mindless arrangement of words was not worth sharing after all. Or perhaps, they best kept personal, sacred, secret, ephermal. "We must be the change we wish to see." -Ghandi said that, or so I've been lead to believe. 1:name -- maricel user_email -- maricel@maxlifestyle.net 3:feedback -- We are ABC-of-Meditation.com, a popular information portal for anything related to Meditation. Our website is part of MaxLifestyle.net, a large network of Lifestyle-related websites. Currently, ABC-of-Meditation.com has a Google Page Rank of 5, and has high rankings for many Meditation-related keywords. In line with this, we would like to exchange internet links with your excellent Meditation website. This will not only allow visitor flow between our websites, it will also help both our rankings in Google and other leading search engines. Setting up a Link Exchange with us is very simple. Just visit the link below and follow the given instructions: http://www.abc-of-meditation.com/linkadd.asp To learn more about us and our website, please visit: - ABC-of-Meditation.com at http://www.ABC-of-Meditation.com Should you have any questions or have other ideas that will be beneficial for the cooperation between our websites, please do not hesitate to contact me. With kind regards, Maricel Salao MaxLifestyle.net: the Lifestyle Network "Maximizing Life" www.Maxlifestyle.net 1:name -- Martha Aitchison user_email -- nottwo@ntlworld.com 3:feedback -- Art project A Lotus in Flower open to everybody, please go to: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nottwo/Text/path.htm 1:name -- Martha Aitchison user_email -- nottwo@ntlworld.com 3:feedback -- I have a link on my site to your Shrine room which is such an excellent idea, but today it doesn't work, is it me? My site is www.nottwo.org.uk 1:name -- Martha Aitchison user_email -- nottwo.ntlworld.com 3:feedback -- I have found the Shrine room, sorry, my mistake! 1:name -- eliza user_email -- oversoulsamuraiseven@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Hey hey Ajahn Kusalo! how are you?! are you still here in Toronto?.... it just occured to me that you may not remember me, but it would probobly be hard to forget my little appendant, who goes by the name of Jude. he just turned 3 and is an astounding talker, if you can imagine that... much praise from both of us on this website, it has quickly become one of my favorites. it's truly a reflection of your creative humor and hard work. i especially like the right brian section...and i'm learning a lot fron the left side as well. funny and educational has never merged so well. i'll be visiting often for sure. i think you would make great children's books. it would be a fun way for kids to learn the beauty and the values of bddhism. and it would be a good time for you too, i'm sure. something to consider. ps- i want to let you know that you taught me one of the best lessons i learned at Arrow River. i had become so caught up in a whirlwind search for some kind of elusive truth, that i didn't realize i had no spiritual practice. i was suffering from my own arrogance. so although i'm still at least 20 minutes late for everything, i am no longer static and i'm actively working on my tardiness. so thank you and namaste 1:name -- Northwood Meditation Woodland user_email -- Hockley, SE Essex. 3:feedback -- The good news is that Northwood was granted planning permission by Rochford District Council for "change of use" from "woodland" to "meditation woodland" in January 2004. The bad news is that "condition 1" limits the number of people permitted on site at any one time for meditation purposes to six. The good news is that the restriction applies ONLY to the act of MEDITATION - so praying, ritual, ceremony, clog dancing, devil worship, blood sacrifice (get the idea ?) and other such activities are unrestricted. Any suggestions or comments about the Planning Services Department of Rochford District Council should be directed to Mr Saun Scrutton (that is his real name !!). Further information available from James - northwoodmeditationwoodland@btdigitaltv.com Love and peace to all ........ including local government officers. 1:name -- Northwood Meditation Woodland user_email -- Hockley, SE Essex. 3:feedback -- The good news is that Northwood was granted planning permission by Rochford District Council for "change of use" from "woodland" to "meditation woodland" in January 2004. The bad news is that "condition 1" limits the number of people permitted on site at any one time for meditation purposes to six. The good news is that the restriction applies ONLY to the act of MEDITATION - so praying, ritual, ceremony, clog dancing, devil worship, blood sacrifice (get the idea ?) and other such activities are unrestricted. Any suggestions or comments about the Planning Services Department of Rochford District Council should be directed to Mr Saun Scrutton (that is his real name !!). Further information available from James - northwoodmeditationwoodland@btdigitaltv.com Love and peace to all ........ including local government officers. 1:name -- dave user_email -- koalabear75whs@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Hi, someone taught me a chant recently and told me he was taught it by a buddhist. I asked him the translation but he didn't know it. I was wondering if you could translate it for me. Pardon the spelling but this is how it sounds "namnayho rangay kyo Thanks 1:name -- dave user_email -- koalabear75whs@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Hi, someone taught me a chant recently and told me he was taught it by a buddhist. I asked him the translation but he didn't know it. I was wondering if you could translate it for me. Pardon the spelling but this is how it sounds "namnayho rangay kyo Thanks 1:name -- gaya magazine user_email -- magazine@gaya.org.tw 3:feedback -- Dear friends, I am writing to ask for your help. We are the Luminary Publishing Association, the non-profit Buddhism organization in Taiwan. As we had seen Venerable Ajahn sumedho ¡¥s teaching ¡§Dependent Origination¡¨ from ¡§The way it is¡¨ through the web site, and wanted introduce to our reader, we are hoping to have permission to published it. It will be translated in Chinese and published in our magazine on April. As we still have difficulty to get in contact with Amaravati(I has been sent mail but still was auto-respond due to silent retreat ), and the dateline for the magazine is near, I am wondering if you could possibly send us any information about how we can published it.(The magazine is free for reader) Could you possibly reply us through the mail as soon as possible. With metta, Bhikkhuni Jenche Editor, Luminary Publishing Association (Taiwan) E-mail: magazine@gaya.org.tw 1:name -- Mark user_email -- mark@r1mct.karoo.co.uk 3:feedback -- I did not have time to view all of this website........but I made time because it satisfied my questions simply and clearly. It quickly showed me that I could find time, it is only the wanting to that prevents it. Thank you. 1:name -- your name user_email -- your email address 3:feedback -- Dear Sir/Madam, My name is V.S.Prashath and i am from india. I need a high-resolution of Buddha photo. I need to take print out of lord buddha and hand in my house. I am interested in his teachings. Please send me high-resolution of photo or guide me to a link were i can find it. Looking forward for ur earliest reply. Thanking you, With regards, V.S.PRASHANTH. 1:name -- Rick user_email -- themanzro@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Hello, A friend keeps sending me this symbol and tells me to seek from you what it means. :0 Will you write me back with the meaning please. Thanks RJ 1:name -- Damodara user_email -- dom@southwind.net 3:feedback -- Hello, On your mainpage it says 'left brian', instead of 'left brain'. 1:name -- Srilanken user_email -- tissajaya@gmail.com 3:feedback -- Iwould prefer to be a active member by writing to this page. tissa 1:name -- hale burnside user_email -- haleii@charter.net 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- Cynthia Giles user_email -- cynthiagiles@comcast.net 3:feedback -- Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy--and admire--buddhamind. Right and left! I've discovered several delightful "buddhaminders", and recently included one in a post (http://elixabet.typepad.com/metafizzics/2005/04/taking_names.html) on my weblog. I look forward to sharing more connections to buddhamind, and perhaps encouraging people to encounter Buddhism in a refreshing new way. Thanks, and best wishes. Cynthia Giles 1:name -- tissajayasekera user_email -- tissajaya@gmail.com 3:feedback -- my name from penpals list withdrawn, i requested a page for writing reply not received.when i try to contact persons mailing requests accounts why money? e.mails can be sent free isnt it? hope i spoke frankly,pardon any inconvineance, tissa 1:name -- Shirley user_email -- shir.nolad@gmail.com 3:feedback -- Hello :-) While surfing the web I came across your crafts page with recipes for various home-made crafting materials. http://www.buddhamind.info/leftside/actives/recipes.htm I represent an Israeli parenting web site, created by parents, for parents. I would like to ask your premission to translate the recipes to Hebrew and publish them at our site (with credit to you). Please let me know if this is OK. With best regards, Shirley www.ha-lool.co.il 1:name -- tissajayasekera user_email -- tissajaya@gmail.com 3:feedback -- Editor, Wesak full moon falls on may 23rd 2005 people in sri lanka now getting ready for festival expect hot hot news later. tissa 1:name -- Farzad user_email -- fadl64@gmail.com 3:feedback -- I`m not sure there is anything defined as truth,I`m not sure there is god or not, I`m not sure there is a way toward eternity, but I`m sure i want peace 1:name -- supawadee user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- The heart of the parth is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be.That's all that i do in my own practice, 1:name -- bodhidharma1001 user_email -- bodhidharma1001@adelphia.net 3:feedback -- Friends, I regretfully request to unsubscribe to all activities, due to medical reasons. I am having serious heart complications and feel I could not devote the necessary time required. Thank you for your time and understanding in this matter. Sincerely, Bodhidharma1001 1:name -- bodhidharma1001 user_email -- bodhidharma1001@adelphia.net 3:feedback -- Friends, I regretfully request to unsubscribe to all activities, due to medical reasons. I am having serious heart complications and feel I could not devote the necessary time required. Thank you for your time and understanding in this matter. Sincerely, Bodhidharma1001 1:name -- bodhidharma1001 user_email -- bodhidharma1001@adelphia.net 3:feedback -- Friends, I regretfully request to unsubscribe to all activities, due to medical reasons. I am having serious heart complications and feel I could not devote the necessary time required. Thank you for your time and understanding in this matter. Sincerely, Bodhidharma1001 1:name -- J. E. Lancaster user_email -- bodhidharma1001@adelphia.net 3:feedback -- Friends, I regretfully request to unsubscribe to all activities, due to medical reasons. I am having serious heart complications and feel I could not devote the necessary time required. Thank you for your time and understanding in this matter. Sincerely, Bodhidharma1001 1:name -- J. E. Lancaster user_email -- bodhidharma1001@adelphia.net 3:feedback -- Friends, I regretfully request to unsubscribe to all activities, due to medical reasons. I am having serious heart complications and feel I could not devote the necessary time required. Thank you for your time and understanding in this matter. Sincerely, Bodhidharma1001 1:name -- J. E. Lancaster user_email -- bodhidharma1001@adelphia.net 3:feedback -- Friends, I regretfully request to unsubscribe to all activities, due to medical reasons. I am having serious heart complications and feel I could not devote the necessary time required. Thank you for your time and understanding in this matter. Sincerely, Bodhidharma1001 1:name -- pheung user_email -- zhaopin2001@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn I just tried to register to join the sutta study group , and got the welcome message and log in box but it would not accept my password, and when I tried again by going back to the registration page, it said that someone else already had this address. Help! Metta Pheung 1:name -- shira schuster user_email -- shira73@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- My password, speranza18, does not seem to work... 1:name -- Tris A. Legacy user_email -- pabulum@adelphia.net 3:feedback -- Homo faber…God’s truth, God’s telesis, God’s tool. This treatise is about the speciation of God’s progeny - from a few scattered and notable luminaries of yore to an epoch of ubiquitous proportions at present. Homo faber in truth, is God’s answer to the test of time, a divinely inspired lot whose creative impulse is to render God’s telesis to fruition. Homo faber confesses God’s telesis - God’s planned progress through creative and social forces – and as such, Homo faber is God’s tool - an evolutionary genius created to guide the human seed back to its source. Homo faber has shown up in all cultures in all times. Appellated as prophets, shamans, witches, avatars, healers, guides, teachers, medicine men and woman, yogis, bodhis, etcetera, they inspirit the flesh with a fruite seed of God’s telesis – moving humanity ever closer to an illuminated destination. Now they are arriving en masse, as Indigo, Crystal, Rainbow and other contemporarily labeled children to address God’s telesis openly, humanity’s issues directly and to fulfill our destiny universally. So who is God? God is love – life’s one-complete epiphany…realized the very moment you hear that small, still voice and recognize God…speaking to yourself! That earth-shattering, self-shattering, ego-shattering moment from which there is no escape - only the complete, consummate embrace of God’s genius removing your identity and replacing it with God. I say to you – Love is God’s genius functioning in the flesh. Realizing God, you are no longer dysfunctional, no longer delusional, no longer derelict. Your direction is clear – your decisions are decisive. Your destiny is unfolding parallel to the planet and in concert with the cosmos. You answered the call to many realizations, climbed many rungs on the ladder to Godhood, and in one all-encompassing moment, you were chosen to become all-of-one with God. God is understood by Homo faber as a universal gestalt: a love/genius so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable from its parts in summation. And the name of that functional unit – God! And it is our supremely functional unit whose properties cannot be reduced to its parts. It’s the whole human: containing all the elements or parts; entire; complete; not divided; a single unit; a complete organization of integrated parts; complete unity. Any attempt to reduce God to a part betroths prejudice, limits love and fragments functionality. Love is whole and love annuls prejudice. When a human becomes whole, their whole-identity becomes God. Their love annuls prejudice, they look from love and they see love – one love in all things…an armistice of infinite peace. Now, let’s step back in time to a period of similar transformation – around 30,000 to 40,000 years ago when Neanderthals and Cro Magnons both inhabited the earth. These two species of humankind lived together on the planet for approximately 10,000 years. Imagine the strangeness of two different phases of evolution clothed in familial flesh and living in close enough quarters to socialize. Neanderthals are now extinct. Cro Magnon is our living ancestry, best known as Homo sapien. Homo fabers rise divines Homo sapiens fall. Homo faber taps the functional unit of God as the unit of measure by which to tare existence, per se, God is the weight of existence (to tare is to deduct the weight of the container from the gross weight to determine the weight of the contents). This is to say that God is life’s content – whereby our functional unit is infinite in the content of its largess. Homo sapien has become preoccupied with life’s containers: their income, their education, their body, their status, their job, their house, their car, etcetera. Homo faber occupies life’s content, and in context is looking from God, not for God, and thereby seeing God in all things. The love of Homo faber is the redintegration - return to wholeness – of God, of humanity, of earth and of the indigenous flora and fauna …mundane and extramundane, all, as kindred spirits. Homo faber has identifiable properties – three attributes by which they can readily be recognized, consistent with realizing truth and love. One, they are empowering. In their presence all those seeking shall find - only falseness can be disempowered. Two, they are enriching. They give and receive generously from the infinite reservoir of God’s largess. And three, they are enlightening. They render insights that require tremendous introspection with proverbial authority. In short, they are wizened beyond their years and do not assume rules for rules sake or titles for titles sake as they transcend time in a state of thisness: the concrete objective reality of being here and now as it really is. They subject their idealism to truth, not the truth to their idealism, and therefore see existence in its unconditional state of reality – in its most perfect and potent form: God. Homo faber can also be distinguished by an archetypical homage rather than the prototypical norms (archetypical being biblical, mythical and supernatural authority – prototypical being parental, political and socio-economic authority). Homo faber intuitively understands interdependence, operating upon the realization that one is all, all is one, and that which you have done unto the least of these so too have you done unto me. Homo faber identifies independence as the oldest stratagem of war…divide and conquer - whether it’s personal, planetary or interplanetary, independence is our original separation from love – our biblicized separation from God in the Garden of Eden. Our redintegration with God as Homo faber is the repristination of a new world garden. Homo faber neither counterfeits nor depreciates their currency of word by habitually uttering incontinent statements such as “I can’t believe…” (with God all things are possible). Being fully present in the moment, Homo faber does not lie (Love In Exile). Every lie by exiling love dissimilates God, and the house in order has no room for hypocrisy. Homo faber yoked to love is God’s genius functioning in the flesh, yoking love as our gregarious genius for one-another, yoking love as our communal genius for all-others, and yoking love as our esoteric genius for music, math, art, science, athletics, etcetera. And Homo faber in addition to the reactionary fight or flight instinct is gifted with a creative command called a fiat – an increative response to human perils that can alter nature and/or reality (a fiat is an order of authority – increative means self-existent or immortal, as is God). This allows Homo faber to do virtually anything imaginable – raise people from the dead, spontaneously heal people, tell or transform the future, communicate with other life forms (including Homo sapiens), etcetera. Homo faber arrives on the planet with the loving intent of contributing to the welfare of all people in all places in all times. This is accomplished by understanding that love (genius) is the answer to every question, and that integrity is the solution to every problem. Once Homo faber opens a door to the house of God – it’s open to all who would enter. If for example, a spontaneous healing takes place once, it’s open for all time to those that would enter through its door (knock and it shall be opened). But only to those that seek it as a virtue, not a vanity. I myself have come bearing another seed to plant in the new world garden: that of divined-inspiration – or God attributed inspiration. I communicate through the now open door of divined-inspiration (I am given the divinely inspirational attributes accorded God in the old testament). I became acutely aware of this when I was 17-years of age as I sat in the back seat of my friend’s car in the high school parking lot mortified as I listened to my mind spoken through an artist on the radio – I was God? Later I discovered with blatant serendipity while in my earliest twenties (I had gone away to meditate and find the answers to life and love) that I could direct my divined-inspiration, even to the focal-point of a climax in another person. This first occurred to me as I was momentarily lusting after a young lady and envisioning a sexual encounter when she had a spontaneous orgasm – right then, right there. I blushed because my brain embodied her release, completely realizing her ecstasy and her embarrassment…but my guilt did not acquit me of further violating unsuspecting woman. Through chagrin and curiosity I used this gift for sexual ploy, barely grasping the immense ramifications of my Godly-endowment. Then I began to see the divined-inspiration of my genius in songs, in comics, in commercials – through all types of creative mediums. I had become a muse - a man charged with distributing God’s inspirational dowry, and a menace without a mentor. The end of excuse is the beginning of enlightenment – so I began holding myself accountable for the condition of the world…if I could act on behalf of God, then I had best act according to God. In truth, I healed – for as the truth will set you free, truth’s freedom motions love’s forgiveness. I also found the answers I went away to find. I understand love. I know God. I realize life: it is heuristic to assimilating God. Every contribution Homo faber makes is an attribute of God opened, given to humankind to empower, to enrich and to enlighten. The importance of my contribution is that now these children are arriving en masse with the door to divined-inspiration opened, they will knock, they will enter and they will perform even greater miracles attributing to God and contributing to humanity. We need to understand this evolutionary leap; these children are coming here with a sacred purpose – as redemption from the ruin of the planet and its core of life. They come incarnating love, inheriting providence, and inspiring God’s telesis - inalienably. God’s telesis has been the spool from which Homo faber wove its common-thread throughout our history. It is an awakening to the divine, a surrender of human will to the surrogate of God’s will. We all have free will, but as more and more choose God’s will and all its incumbent telesis, our genetic coding is being transformed, transmuted and transitioned into Godhood, or Homo faber. Now, we are being born genetically dispositioned to Godhood, as a species of Homo faber and open-minded human genius . We have long understood that the thought by which a problem is created cannot be the thought by which the problem is solved. A new way of thinking is lighting up the horizon – where thoughts are readily given and received and love cannot be exiled. We must therefore bring God out of exile, evolve to annulling prejudice, and accept the accountability of Godhood, as fully-realized Homo fabers. Truth, Love, Courage, Tris A. Legacy 9649 Spyglass Ave. #94 Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240-1273 760-329-2662 pabulum@adelphia.net 1:name -- shira user_email -- shira73@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Hello, I am still unable to log on with what i thought was the password i'd put down. I guess i mistyped it originally, and now it doesn't work...Would you be so kind as to direct me on what to do at this point? Thank you 1:name -- Daynah user_email -- jean.x.grey@gmail.com 3:feedback -- I went to a dhamma talk discussing how everything is a projection from your mind. Reality as we see it really isn't as real as we think it is. And so on and so forth. Things are only good because my mind thinks them good and, also, only bad because my mind thinks them bad. During the lunch break, I attempted to use this new knowledge. Many of the foods were delicious... except the soup. It was terrible. The main flavor was pineapple juice, and I hate pineapple juice. So I remember... things are only bad because I think them bad. I tried incredibly hard to convince my mind that this soup was the best soup I've ever had. Oooh, the texture. Look at how colorful it is (it was a dull brown)! And the pineapple... OH! The PINEAPPLE was DELICIOUS and it came through with such vibrant flavor! After five minutes of this, I had had enough. It was still gross. I sat it down and enjoyed the rest of the food, which I found delicious without trying. Now which side of that is the real dhamma lesson? 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn Kusalo, Many thanks for your letter I'm new Abusika and I would like to know How to do the best and correct for make concentration and How I can do and control myselft when I get angry to diffecult for do that. lookforward to here from you, I'm not very good for english Best regard jum 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn Kusalo, Many thanks for your letter I'm new Abusika and I would like to know How to do the best and correct for make concentration and How I can do and control myselft when I get angry to diffecult for do that. lookforward to here from you, I'm not very good for english Best regard jum 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn Kusalo Many thanks for you answer, yes it is very difficul for working the minds is sometime can not control but i think it's better to be careful your mind everytime If you please tell me how can stayalone without love and hate i know if you have love mean you will to be anxiou about that. best regard jum 1:name -- Stephen user_email -- no tengo 3:feedback -- Loved the site(todo) but me favotite part is that hippo-thing. Thank you. Sorry about the spanglish....I'll pretend that you aren't offendded. 1:name -- Redman user_email -- Mr.Metta@gmail.com 3:feedback -- Wonderful site...umm blah I don't know what to say... Have a wonderful day... gracias 1:name -- Bernadette user_email -- berniecox@fsmail.net 3:feedback -- I have really enjoyed visiting the site fun and informative,a great site. 1:name -- vishwesh user_email -- vishweshmehta@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- can some one increase his IQ after he reaches a age of 22? can there be some one who can help me learn and do calculaton fast is ther any one pls do help me 1:name -- vishwesh user_email -- vishweshmehta@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- can some one increase his IQ after he reaches a age of 22? can there be some one who can help me learn and do calculaton fast is ther any one pls do help me 1:name -- Richard Wilkens user_email -- bohdidharma2525@hotmail .com 3:feedback -- Ajahn, Just wanted to send a friendly greeting to the man who helped me along the path that I am just setting out on. Thanx Tons, Richard 1:name -- jum_smith user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Thanks you very much for you reply my letter it is very good for me I'm very much interestiing about buddha so I treat my practic all the time sometime i have proplem about my mind would you please tell me how i can do the best and correct with my mide best regard jum_smith 1:name -- Sherry MacGregor user_email -- danmac5@prodigy.net 3:feedback -- I live in a rather remote area in northern Wisconsin, USA. I have been unable to find a Buddhist community near me. I am currently meditating and chanting and reading everything I can get my hands on! I have been interested in Buddhism for years but never really did much about it, practice-wise, until recently. I know I can follow this path on my own but it would be nice to have someone with whom I can communicate. Can you help me? 1:name -- Chhiv, Ven user_email -- chhiv@myway.com 3:feedback -- I do not know about this Web site. What I want to write to the members of owners of this web side is about my interests on Buddha history and his life in pictures. I try to write and send my request if I could have permission to copy Buddha pictures and and then color them as clear as posssible and use some information to produce a book of Buuha. Please reply to me! Thank you very much for all information of Buddha. Truthfully, Ven Chhiv chhiv@myway.com 1:name -- Chhiv, Ven user_email -- chhiv@myway.com 3:feedback -- I do not know about this Web site. What I want to write to the members of owners of this web side is about my interests on Buddha history and his life in pictures. I try to write and send my request if I could have permission to copy Buddha pictures and and then color them as clear as posssible and use some information to produce a book of Buuha. Please reply to me! Thank you very much for all information of Buddha. Truthfully, Ven Chhiv chhiv@myway.com 1:name -- your name user_email -- bshdhhrudh,kd 3:feedback -- ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 1:name -- Alec Jones user_email -- psychologist@westnet.com.au 3:feedback -- I love the site.............being a psychic psychologist and ex Anglican Minister I am absolutely rapt with a sense of purpose in your work. Currently the enlightened Path is a bit 'turny' 'twisty' and surprises are found at every corner but, at going on 62, after 54 years of this Path and committed to The Christ Spirit (Enlightenment Path) or 'soul' reach I am finding it all a joy. Thank you for this.......please include me in your newsletters and let me know if I can spend 'time' to help..........don't know what I can do and, being on a pension don't have much money.........but..........talk to me. 1:name -- Leslie user_email -- leslie.smith@medibroker.com 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn I am a friend and supporter of Ajahn Munindo and the Sangha at Harnham in Northumberland, England. You site is really interesting to me as a businessman and user of websites for marketing and contacting our Global Base of Clients. Building "Cyber Communites" is a passion of mine and I see considerable potential in what you are doing. Yes, I agree a Name give a person " responsible" for the Site and we need to know and have human contact. My companies are at: www.medibroker.co.uk www.medibroker.com www.medibrokerinternational.com www.treatmentchoices.co.uk We earn money from Medibroker which pays our salaries and bills. Treatment Choices, from which I take no money at all, is a "Worthy Cause" as we wish to have an Ethics Committee decide to offer one or two free treatment cases per year, to the deserving. This may mean treating a cancer patient in France, paid by us, ( and others) or proving a heart operation for a child.. and so on... It feels good to connect with the Dhamma in such a site as yours here and share our "Bhudda Minds". I have of course presumed that you know Ajan Munindo from Harnham, who knows me. However, I do not think that we have ever met or spoken before. Great! You are of course moving now, into unknown territory with this website... a wonderful experiment. Kind Regards Leslie 1:name -- alex user_email -- alex.kelly@ntlworld.com 3:feedback -- Hello Please could you remind me what my username and password are as i have forgotten them...memory is anicca! thank you Alex 1:name -- Lara user_email -- mirnik.co@siol.net 3:feedback -- Hello ! Dont know your name, dont know who you are, but all that dont matter. I read what you wrote and i agree with you. You asked if i liked my self wright now and i said no. How many times i pray to be free of this cage, that i do not realy know who made it - was i put into it or did i make it. Who desined it ? So many things, people, thoughts, feelinges, problems, demons, ghosts, kisses. 1:name -- Justin Lundeen user_email -- justin_lundeen@lycos.com 3:feedback -- To whom this may concern, I wish to take the Three Refuges and Five Precepts, but the nearest Buddhist center is in Peoria, IL (I'm in Galesburg, IL) and it's a Zen center. I would like to take them with a Theravada bhikku(s), and I know there aren't any of those but up in Chicago. How can I take them privately for now until I can get in contact with a bhikku(s)? I feel I have an understanding of the basics of Buddhism and I want to follow the Theravada path specifically. Please respond. Thanks! 1:name -- name user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- Adam Johnson user_email -- whistlestopcafe@shaw.ca 3:feedback -- I couldn't log in so I did everything as requested all over again and still can't log in. 1:name -- RM user_email -- root.man@earthlink.net 3:feedback -- Hello, I am studying all things about the dhamma. I found this.. http://www.attan.com/anatta.html What do you think? Nobody will give me an answer... Did buddha admit there was a soul or not? 1:name -- Andre Vellino user_email -- vellino@sympatico.ca 3:feedback -- Dear Ajahn Kusalo, First of all, many thanks for producing "The Stillness of Being" - it really is a splendid book and the love you put into producing it really shows! I am in the middle of updating my web site : dharma.ncf.ca and I was asking Ajahn V. the other day if it might be OK to put up a couple of audio talks (MP3) and the book (in PDF format). I tried to download it from your site, but I get a "404 Error": The requested URL /stillness/stillness.pdf was not found on this server. Thought you'd like to know! Kindest regards - Andre Vellino 1:name -- Aaron Bingaman user_email -- aaronb@webjemm.net 3:feedback -- I hope that i am not disturbing you but I want to ask you something. I am looking for my path and have been looking into buddha. I have found mindfullness to be rewarding. But i am uneased by areas of it. It seems to be a path to lose all drive both in this life and after death. Can you help me 1:name -- Barbara Brodsky user_email -- bbrodsky@deepspring.org 3:feedback -- I would like to get a copy of the book for myself, and also some copies for the Deep Spring Center library and bookstore. Thank you for advising me how we can do this. metta, Barbara 1:name -- Alice user_email -- info@deepspring.org 3:feedback -- Broken Links for Viradhammo's The Stillness of Being, web page http://www.buddhamind.info/stillness/: Plain Text Version -- http://www.buddhamind.info/stillness/stillness.pdf PDF -- http://www.buddhamind.info/stillness/stilness.zip 1:name -- Stephen Mason user_email -- stephenmason4444@comcast.net 3:feedback -- Hi, I am unable to enter the virtaul classroom. I just entered my name, but it rejects my password. I have never utilized this function. When I try to re enter my name and info, the camputer tells me that I am already registered. Can you help me? 1:name -- Vanessa Magee user_email -- vjmagee@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Your wonderful little book turned up on our community table at Northwoods Mindfulness Community in Toronto. I borrowed it to read and would love to get my own copy. Is it available anywhere in Toronto? I would be happy to pay the costs and send a returned envelope, etc. If this is not possible, please let me know. Thanks. 1:name -- Vanessa Magee user_email -- vjmagee@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Your wonderful little book turned up on our community table at Northwoods Mindfulness Community in Toronto. I borrowed it to read and would love to get my own copy. Is it available anywhere in Toronto? I would be happy to pay the costs and send a returned envelope, etc. If this is not possible, please let me know. Thanks. PS I'm not sure this went, so here it is again! 1:name -- Bill Callaway user_email -- bill.callaway@juno.com 3:feedback -- Hello Ajahn. I enjoy your website. I am a novice Buddhist, learning from some monks at a Wat here in Phoenix, Arizona. I was wondering if you know of any websites that sell the saffron or orange robes the monks wear. Or any of the other products that the monks use. Thanks, Bill 1:name -- LALITA DHAMMA user_email -- WWW.LIANACUTEZZ.YAHOO 3:feedback -- IN THIS WORLD BUDDHA IS THE PERFCT OF RELIGION 1:name -- scott user_email -- scott@hearthstone.co.uk 3:feedback -- Hello How are you Best wishes 1:name -- Devin user_email -- canuck118@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Helloo Ajahn how is everything at Arrow River??? I heard the new steward finally arrived everything is going well here at york university, i find in a predominantly inorganic environment like the one i'm living in is harder to connect to in comparison to the organic environment of arrow river but the people make up for it i'm enjoying it!!! 1:name -- Amit Meshram user_email -- amity2kok@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- I want to UnJoin. Thankyou 1:name -- emily preece user_email -- emily@buddhawheel.co.uk 3:feedback -- I like your website. I too have done a lot of buddhism with children and beginner buddhists. I thought you would like my site: http://www.buddhawheel.co.uk It's about a new game I've produced based on the wheel of life. Much love Emily 1:name -- Brian user_email -- ocalbrij@shaw.ca 3:feedback -- I am interested in Buddhism as from my initial inderstanding it mainly related to peace and understanding, this is something i once had and now seem to have lost and have become a rather angry an impaitent man and I strongly wish to re discover my paitence and self happiness, if you can help via information or such please do so, if not, then i will continue to investigate, thank you for your time 1:name -- Tina user_email -- tbeacock@att.net 3:feedback -- Oh no! No jokes! At least, I can't see them on my (Opera 7) browser. Did someone decide they were ot buddhist jokes? (goes back to index) http://www.buddhamind.info/riteside/quothene/joke-fr.htm by the way, I love your site -- I go to the right-brain places from time to time. Tina Chicago 1:name -- Lee user_email -- mspony23@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- http://www.buddhamind.info/riteside/phatfrogs/clear.htm From which culture would this Buddha image belong? The image is beautiful. Thank you. Love & Peace, 1:name -- Chitra de Silva user_email -- ashfordprint@btopenworld.com 3:feedback -- to Ven Kusalo Hello Bhante Just a note to say hello. I got the web link from Ven Vajiro. I hope this finds you well and happy. I see that you are busy as usual with newsletters, sunday school etc. The site is wonderful with a lot of information. I have already recommended it to my sis-in-law who lives in London, Ontario. We still print the Rainbow and the Forest Sangha. It is only MBand I now as things have got quieter on the print front - at least for us. We are probably getting too old. Wishing you the blessings of the triple gem, Chitra de Silva Ashford Printing 89 High Street Wealdstone Harrow HA3 5DL 1:name -- Inge Chandasari Sterk user_email -- mitwelt_inge@web.de 3:feedback -- Dear Banthe, ANUMODANA, 3xSADHU!!! your lovely DANA of a bodhi-leaf I will use as a logo. Can I give your website as a link to my soon establishing website? From an ex MaeChee and Ex Wat Pah Nanachatienne (1983) 1:name -- Hokai Matthew user_email -- matpardini@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Thank you for this site. I electronically bow. You have made a very inspiring website. I followed the links through the shrine. Near the end, once I entered the shrine, I was able to see that you created a shrine in the virtual world. That's so amazing. Usually I connect shrines to a place. But this shrine is special. No place, no time, just shrine. Thank you. Palm to palm hokai 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- dear ajahn kusalo, thanks very much for your e-mail it's very good ideal for me did you know i fighting with my feeling about love ok i will try to love with in kindness this is real love what you thing? i desigh my life i will be single all my livelong it's to difficult but i try to do that beacuse i need to do the best thing in my life so i love freedom too. not worrying about the past and the future, giving rise to the present monent, becoming established in this place of full perfection. best regard ..jum 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- dear ajahn kusalo, thanks very much for your e-mail it's very good ideal for me did you know i fighting with my feeling about love ok i will try to love with in kindness this is real love what you thing? i desigh my life i will be single all my livelong it's to difficult but i try to do that beacuse i need to do the best thing in my life so i love freedom too. not worrying about the past and the future, giving rise to the present monent, becoming established in this place of full perfection. best regard ..jum 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- dear ajahn kusalo, thanks very much for your e-mail it's very good ideal for me did you know i fighting with my feeling about love ok i will try to love with in kindness this is real love what you thing? i desigh my life i will be single all my livelong it's to difficult but i try to do that beacuse i need to do the best thing in my life so i love freedom too. not worrying about the past and the future, giving rise to the present monent, becoming established in this place of full perfection. best regard..jum 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- dear ajahn kusalo, thanks very much for your e-mail it's very good ideal for me did you know i fighting with my feeling about love ok i will try to love with in kindness this is real love what you thing? i desigh my life i will be single all my livelong it's to difficult but i try to do that beacuse i need to do the best thing in my life so i love freedom too. not worrying about the past and the future, giving rise to the present monent, becoming established in this place of full perfection. 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- dear ajahn kusalo, thanks very much for your e-mail it's very good ideal for me did you know i fighting with my feeling about love ok i will try to love with in kindness this is real love what you thing? i desigh my life i will be single all my livelong it's to difficult but i try to do that beacuse i need to do the best thing in my life so i love freedom too. not worrying about the past and the future, giving rise to the present monent, becoming established in this place of full perfection. 1:name -- Rod user_email -- dsjtky@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Hi, check out www.dhammaspread.org 1:name -- Ben Ames user_email -- bena@pennwell.com 3:feedback -- Hello -- Great site here, www.buddhamind.info. But as an editor, I must point out -- the home page has a spelling mistake, spelling "right brain" as "brian." best holiday wishes and happy solstice, ben 1:name -- itzell user_email -- your email address 3:feedback -- hi 1:name -- Chiel user_email -- chiel@zebra.xs4all.nl 3:feedback -- Hi! Nice and interesting site you have! Some 40 years ago, my father got a brass Buddha from an old Indonesian lady. I was wondering how to find out where it originally came from and how old it might be. See image: http://zebra.xs4all.nl/fotos/buddha.jpg I would appreciate very much if you could give me a hint. Best regards, Chiel 1:name -- Daniel Volz user_email -- daniel_volz@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Thank you for all your efforts 1:name -- Daniel Volz user_email -- daniel_volz@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Thank you for all your efforts 1:name -- Liam Ballinagar user_email -- liam@liamballinagar.com 3:feedback -- Greetings! My name is Liam Ballinagar. I'm writing to you today to inquire about the possibility of a link exchange with your wonderful site. I have recently co-authored a bood with Mr. Gamble Leidolf entitled, Basis of Being. Doing a search for those words led me to your site and I have enjoyed the various pages. Please, check out my site: www.basisofbeing.com and let me know your thoughts. Thank you very much for time and consideration. Respectfully, Liam Ballinagar www.basisofbeing.com 1:name -- Angelina user_email -- AngeLBlue016@aol.com 3:feedback -- I have a question- I'm learning about Buddhism in my theology class and I just wanted to know, I guess, Buddhist views on clothing. Particularly, is there a particular way women should dress or ways that they shouldn't wear their hair? Also, what kind of roles can women play in Buddhism? If you could reply to me asap, that'd be great! 1:name -- rosemary user_email -- rose@nascr.net 3:feedback -- Hello Ajahn Remember me? I'm Rosemary from Samatha at Greenstreete and Manchester, England. I was looking for inspiration for a meeting I am going to and happened across your site. It's wonderful! I shall take a copy of the metta practice with me! All the best! 1:name -- Emily Preece user_email -- emily@buddhawheel.co.uk 3:feedback -- We've been doing family workshops exploring the Wheel of Life with a game called BuddhaWheel. We've been in the news and on radio with it and people in our closer and wider community have been enjoying exploring their spiritual and not so spiritual moments with others. It's been a really positive experience. http://www.buddhawheel.co.uk lots of love to all buddhaminders, Emily 1:name -- Erik user_email -- your email address 3:feedback -- Im only 14 but this site really is helpfull and peacefull. 1:name -- your name user_email -- your email address 3:feedback -- bkamorpriya@yahoo.com shanti 1:name -- Jack user_email -- jdinbowie@comcast.net 3:feedback -- This is the most incredible web site! Thought provoking and humorous. It's a delite to trip around uncovering things. The subject matter speaks for itself. With metta, jack 1:name -- your name user_email -- your email address 3:feedback -- bkamorpriya@yahoo.com shanti 1:name -- cindy stewart user_email -- smile4awhile@cheerful.com 3:feedback -- Hello, I signed up with Buddhaminders quite a while ago and have forgotten my login name and password. Would you be able to send me that information please? I would like to be able to access that page. I was recently contacted by someone, so I know my "profile" is still on the website...it would have probably mentioned that I live in Thailand...I can't remember what I wrote!! Thanks very much! Metta, Cindy 1:name -- jum user_email -- jum_lamon@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- The attainer of the Dhamma Just as a drop of water does not cleave to the lotus leaf, or water to the lotus flower, a sage does not cleave to sights seen, sounds heard or experiences cognized. 1:name -- name user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- matthew pardini user_email -- matpardini@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Hi there. My name is Mat Pardini. I am starting a website called I am the generation. Its directed at the first generation to be in realization of the Self, and the responsibilities that go along with that. Its about... well about individuals. I was wondering if you would be interested in becoming part of it. The site is going to be broken up into 12 biographical sections. Each "biography" will be expressive, not necessarily narrative. For example, if I had a section, I might have paintings on the main page, a poetry section, an essay section, a section on why the website, a section about healing. I might top it off by chalking it FULL of links to wonderful websites and then add music in the background to accompany the reader. Your section, if you are interested, could be done in any way you would like. That is the idea, to capture the essence of 12 different individuals through expression, and the 13th individual, me, will be captured through the site itself. You can have as much or as little to do with the actual construction of the section as you want. I absolutely love your website, and I think it is a beautiful expression in itself. When I came up with the site idea, it seemed only natural to me to ask you to be part of it (even though we have never spoken). However, I understand if for whatever reason you can not be a part of it. Please let me know if you are interested as soon as possible, as I am eager to get working on the site and have been sitting on the idea for some time now. I look forward to hearing from you. Palm to Palm Hokai Matthew Pardini 1:name -- Richard Wilkens user_email -- bohdidharma2525@hotmail.com 3:feedback -- Venerable Ajahn Kusalo, I'm sure that you would find it hard to remember me but I was fortunate enough to have you as my instructor for an introduction to Meditation course that I and my friend Heidi took with you back in the day that your were Affiliated(?) with the Therevedan Buddhist Community here in Toronto. Since taking your course I have remained on the Path to the best of my ability. I joined the TBC and sit with the group most Sundays. I have gone on two retreats one with Sister K, a Burmese nun up north around Severn Falls and a city retreat with Sister Candaserie (sp. ? ) at the Cemtre with the TBC. Anyway.... the reason I am writing you is to enquire if you still reside somewhere around here in the Toronto area. One of the members of the TBC had mentioned you working with her community college class on a Meditation group of some sort. If you do still reside in this area then I was wondering if it would be possible for me to get in touch with you for acouple of reasons. DFirstly I would realyy like to have a talk with you about my progress(or lack thereof ) on the Path. I have to confess that of all the Buddhist folks I have had the good fortune to meet you made the most lasting imppression on me.I have been sending metta your way in my sorry excuse for Metta meditation and would be very gratified if it was possible to further our aquaintence.The other reason I am writing you is to find out wether it would be at all possible for you to pay a visit to my school. I believe I told you that I was including meditation in my classroom program and I have kept up with this.If it was in any way possible for you to grace our school with your presence I would be more than gratified. Anyway... I have been debating for some time wether or not to send you an e-mail such as this and finally decide Oh Well...What the Hell !! What can it hurt ? I hope you do not think I am too forward or some such thing but I imagine anyone as far as along the Path as you would have left such ideation behind, then again maybe not. I do hope to hear from you but will not be too upset if you find yourself too busy to reply.I have given you my e-mail address above but will include it in this text just to be obbsseive-compulsive. It is bohdidharma2525@hotmail.com So ..... Regards... Richard H. Wilkens 1:name -- Noah user_email -- seesteevie@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- I wish to leave the United States and move to a monastary. 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How can one convert into the buddist religion. Thank you 1:name -- Lyn Turner user_email -- lyn.turner@sympatico.ca 3:feedback -- Hi Ajahn Kusalo, I hope you are well and enjoying your travelling. Have you had an opportunity to touch base with your son? We recently received an email about Tisarana Monestary from Ajahn V. How is the website coming along? This past weekend I was very busy with school activities. Our local Bar Association put on a Mock Trial for the students in the region on Saturday for Law Day. It was really well done. The students who went really enjoyed it and learned lots. One of my students got to play the role of a witness and another one got to be a jury member. Hopefully it will become an annual event. Also our students put on the musical "Grease" and I went with some other teachers on Saturday night. We have the Arts Package at our school so it attracts very talented kids. I am always amazed by their talent. It was very enjoyable. 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Yours in Dharma, Third World TrAid 1:name -- lord user_email -- lord@lordcollins.wanadoo.co.uk 3:feedback -- well what a manipulating person you are--pretending in your yellow bedsheet to be on "the right path"--of course you have no shame at prosletysing for a failed authoritarian pyramidical power structure but then you intellectuals were never strong on either honesty or guilt were you?--ajan chah was a fraud in 1985 in uk and is still a fraud (if hes still alive)--a man like you with no experience of that which he talks about--i dont expect you to reply in any other fashion but condecension but please do enjoy your illusions(they are all you have left)--how many paise come? 1:name -- lord user_email -- lord@lordcollins.wanadoo.co.uk 3:feedback -- well what a manipulating person you are--pretending in your yellow bedsheet to be on "the right path"--of course you have no shame at prosletysing for a failed authoritarian pyramidical power structure but then you intellectuals were never strong on either honesty or guilt were you?--ajan chah was a fraud in 1985 in uk and is still a fraud (if hes still alive)--a man like you with no experience of that which he talks about--i dont expect you to reply in any other fashion but condecension but please do enjoy your illusions(they are all you have left)--how many paise come? 1:name -- Matthew Pope user_email -- mpope@teksavvy.com 3:feedback -- Dear Virdhammo Bikku,
Borrowed from Lorna Milne, a psychotherapist in Toronto who practices at 'The Centre' at 316 Dupont, she explained that her colleague attended a retreat with you, and obtained 'The Stillness of Being' while there.
Your published speeches have had a significant effect on the ability of both myself and my wife to make significant breakthroughs in awareness. Up until recently, we have been reading only books from the Buddhist Temple in Toronto (Bayview & Steeles) and making breakthroughs in awareness at a slower pace. Thank you so much.
I do not know if it is because you can translate Eastern philosophy so well because of your unique life history, or if is just that you are a natural writer. In any event, please do continue to publish your speeches, as they lessen suffering far and wide to people such as myself and my wife here in Toronto.
Speaking of which, I would very much like to obtain/purchase hardcopies of the book as my father is ripe for some enlightenment, and he has physical challenges operating a mouse, and so forth.
Are there any copies for sale? Thanks so much, "Infinite Patience and Boundless Compassion" Matthew Pope 1:name -- mark user_email -- markgoris@yahoo.com 3:feedback -- Just to say: thank you for the wonderful website of Buddhamind! Metta, mark 1:name -- James G. user_email -- ragnarok.symphony@gmail.com 3:feedback -- my fridge poem can be found here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/vanehollow/yay.png I am from Wisconsin 1:name -- Govinda Raja Prabhu user_email -- govindaraj.prabhu@gmail.com 3:feedback -- Hi, Wanted your permission to use the Buddha photo in you website for Meditation purposes. I am a Reiki Master and conduct Reiki Classes in India. Thanks and Regards Govinda 1:name -- Ischi user_email -- olivia.hafner@web.de 3:feedback -- What an inspirational si(gh)t ! I have just discovered it and it seems to go on forever. I just wanted to participate and send you some stuff but it turns out I need to be a member of the community. I usually shy away from communities but this time I really want to be part. Thank you 1:name -- Hiriko user_email -- hiriko@ratanagiri.org.uk 3:feedback -- Greetings Ajahn Kusalo, I would like to check if is OK that we modify html file of the book ‘Seeing the way’ for our new CD of 25th Anniversary of Aruna Ratanagiri Monastery. Thank you in advance. Metta, Hiriko Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery www.ratanagiri.org.uk www.forestsangha.org 1:name -- name user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- Dimitr user_email -- email address 3:feedback -- your news 1:name -- Matthew Pope user_email -- mpope@teksavvy.com 3:feedback -- Venerable Virhadhammo,
I will be graced by your presence on September 24 in Toronto. FYI, my wife and I have been very affected by your book. We have been reading & re-reading the "Stillness of Being" speeches every day for over 2 months. We are both experiencing transformation, i.e. real results.
I am writing you to a) thank you for your excellent teachings and b) to ask you to consider a request. I have written a non-fiction, autobiographical work titled: Ticking Time Bomb: When Repressed Chilhood Traumas are Partiall Remembered, post 9/11.
This book is intended to reach those who like myself found themselves overflowing with anger, rage, and even violence when they first remembered very severe childhood trauma, as adults. I make an attempt to share my healing experience, and to steer people to the right kind of help. In addition to psychodymamic psychotherapy, the healing methods include Mindfullness for sure, and optionally Buddhism.
To that end, I would very much like your permission to reprint just one of your speeches from "The Stillness of Being". My book will be for sale commercially, so we could work out a royaltee sharing based on the number of pages. Currently my book is about 160 pages. If one of your speeches came to 16 pages, then I would commit 10% of the book royaltees to you, or a charity of your choosing.
I imagine you might wish to see my book first. I will bring a copy with me on September 24.
I hope you and your family are well.
Sincerely, and Respectfully,
Matthew Pope
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