No One

The internet is a powerful tool that provides people with many resources. Perhaps one day when I see how I can use the tool to solely benefit others, I will do so. But that day is not here and I find no need to reach out. This is the last forum I will connect with others on, so for that I honor your sacred space here! I am honored to be here! Among such wonderful people!

Personally I have come to basically hate (how attached that makes me feel) connecting online through a screen. I would like to solely engage with communities offline (how one-sided this must sound) and interact with people face to face, not through letters and a keyboard!

I hope your journey is continuing steadfastly friend!

1 more penny before I retreat into my Practice space before disappearing from this fine forum entirely in the near future, Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond

But alas, many cannot find this, and so I offer this lecture series, just my 2 cents : [English] Meditation and Consciousness - Ven. Guan Cheng (10 Lectures)

A local, living, breathing Teacher. A Qigong Master can also teach meditation properly in many cases. Emphasis on offline, preferably.

Namo Amitabha friends, one more resource from my end before I retreat into my Practice space here and soon vanish just like how I appeared from nowhere, I just requested a paper copy of The Five Pure Land Sutras as it seems most appropriate for study without being connected to a Teacher presently and this being the Dharma Ending Age. Yours in Dharma, No One http://www.budaedu.org/en/book, they distribute materials free of charge.

One more page, lectures are a bit lofty I was told and only watch the Infinite Life Sutra series right now: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIDc2zUth8R-YGIgGw-phteCaWUaFZWw Wait one more, video lectures that cover the Diamond and Heart Sutras: www.youtube.com/user/buddhisttemple/playlists

I found a really good site on the Reddit Pure Land page I will try to dig it up. Useful it was. Other than that and Buddhist Text Translation Society I cannot recommend anything further, other than perhaps these rare treasures that I will not be reading until I am training under a Master again. I only read one sutra currently as the foundation of my practice is lacking, specifically in morality and wholesome ways, The Ten Wholesome Ways Nice ebay page here I got it from: www.ebay.com/usr/purelandbuddhism?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 The rare treasures: www.amazon.com/Infinite-Life-Sutra-Larger-Sukhavativyuha/dp/1514182750 & the other one is so rare I cannot even remember the name, but the copy available on Amazon was several hundred dollars anyways. I read a good portion of it at a martial arts Institute and Temple I have been demonically cut off from by own mistakes and am now treading for dear life on a wrong path. Knowing I have gone astray I seek to return to wholesome ways and the right path under a genuine Master.

They are expounded on quite wonderfully in this sutra commentary: www.cttbusa.org/amitabha/amitabha.htm www.buddhisttexts.org/the-buddha-speaks-of-amitabha-sutra.html Peace be with all beings.

And I am at present a crooked thug.

Yes. Worthwhile.