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To all or none,

Text by Banthe and Buddha.



Friends:
Remote & Solitary is Forest Bliss!
The forest bhikkhu pays much attention to the experience of the forest.
He thereby enters even deeper yet unattained depths of concentration.
By living thus remote he is not distracted by any unsuitable phenomena.
He is free from all anxiety and stress. He abandons attachment to life.
He enjoys a taste of the bliss of seclusion, and the silenced mental peace.
He lives secluded and apart. Calm and remote abodes delight his heart.
The hermit that in woods can dwell alone, may gain this sweet bliss as well,
which sublime taste is beyond the royal bliss even in any heavenly paradise.
So does the forest delight any wise man calmed by his fine dwelling's ease.
Sources: MN 121, AN III 343, Vism I 73



ALONE
The one who sits and lives solitary,
& walks alone finds great delight
in the silence of the forest...

Dhammapada story 305
SUCH ONE
The One wearing only 3 robes,
who is thin with veins showing,
who meditates alone in the forest,
such one is a Holy One...
Dhammapada story 395

Thank You loong for such beautiful passages

It has really, really helped me today because I spend so much time alone.

Thank You Dear Friend,

Burt B.

To Burt

You are so very welcomed.

loong,a friend.

To all or none,

Good words come from everywhere.Today at Mc Donalds while preparing tonite's posts,the young chap that cleans the tables,
asked me :How my life had been ? I answered full ,he then said then you had a good life!!!!!!

loong

To all or none,
About an hour ago ,I renounced to my Taking Refuge vows.
I am no longer a Buddhist,but a human being looking for happiness,joy, and working gently on the Noble Eighfold Path ,
not to try to attain enlightenment,but for the betterment of who i am.

Normand/loong

Whatever feels right to you Loong! Funnily enough, at my recent retreat in Colorado, I retook my vows with Lama Tsultrim. However, in her tradition this does not preclude studying other spiritual traditions or practices, or identifying myself as 'Buddhist' to the exclusion of other seeking methods, so there is no conflict for me.

We mark stages in our paths in different ways at different times in our lives.

To all or none

For those who want to watch Oprah interviewing Thich Nhat Hanh

go tr [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PCXeHNL3s8[url]

loong

To all or none,

Preserve yourself from insatiable cravings,they grow like the

Torrent of a mountain river,

Tchouan tseu

To all or none,

Slowly coming back to Buddhism.Tonite I wrote to Banthe a Monk
in Sri-Lanka,begging to send him and his Sangha ,FOOD.
I wrote back that close to my village there is a vietnameese Sangha where they work the fields.

I told him that times have changed.3/4 of the planet is dying of malnutrition.So roll up your sleeves ,stop begging and work ,like everybody else.
Hope to get an answer back.Right now ,I am working on a plan for our town that is supposedly rich,and there is no place for the
hungry.I like to rock & roll sometimes ,so I am scraping all the info I can find and go a town meeting ,and tell them that
instead of buying a 7 th fire truck at $300,000,they could have invested in poverty.

loong
Part of the Universe

To all or none,

In the Mahayana lineage,What always bugged me was the word,
Buddhahood .I have used it once or twice in the many previous
posts I wrote ,in this group.

After meditation, Saying that Buddhahood is inside of me ,is like a Christian saying Jesus lives inside of him or a Muslim saying Allah lives through him.

To me this is making Buddhism a Theist religion.It is bringing
Buddha to the hight of a God ,which he is not ,nor Jesus ,nor Allah.

loong
part of the Oneness