No One

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!

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!

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.

Hi, Content to be registered. Pleased to be beginning use of the forum. I'm not going to write a bio, not even a short one, no. But I suppose I can share a bit about myself. Just a tiny little bit. I'm a white dude. Mahayana Buddhist. Lover of the Dao. Stubborn learner and dull in the world. A plain one.

And so I come into this fertile section, so much jubilance and latent potential, what does hinder us? Greed, anger, stupidity. The five desires. Not to be shrugged off as irrelevant. Massive cannabis session flashback to junior high typing this. Deserves its own thread.

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.

Please sir, please madame, may I have one?

Hola!

WUT?!?!? Max litter vigilante hero.

From my intel, trees about the size of a person and larger are 'houses' for spirits. Monks in need of timber would request permission from the spirit if they wanted to use the tree and would only cut one down if the spirit agreed and left the tree a few days beforehand.

True Religion is anything but 'coercive'. Your perceptions of certain dogmatic pushers/scriptures no doubt influenced you to write that, understandable.