affenbrot Posted October 16, 2005 Hello everybody! For me this group feels like a virtual sangha already. I love the openness and sense of exploring and researching matters of spiritual practice. Real ?Sanghas? I so far met and been part of often felt too focused on a very specialised set of tradition and /or more often a teacher. Sometimes it is really amazing how mental, emotional and spiritual vibrations can be transmitted only through this written medium in the internet! I live in Germany, met M.Chia ten years ago, after a period of kriya yoga practice. Since four years I have been with a chinese teacher who mostly does a very abstract "heart to heart" teaching and "transmission without words" which sometimes is quite amazing but still often insults my wish for intellectual understanding and self-responsible practice... A very short intro of myself to start with, I will add something in the future! I am happy to be an official member now, and hopefully will quit always only lurking from behind! ..but you know, english is a foreign language for me and reading is just much more easy than writing (meaning "composing", "looking things up in a dictionary")! greetings affenbrot Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
90_1494798740 Posted October 16, 2005 Jedenfalls ein sehr origineller "typisch deutscher" Name, Affenbrot! [Anyway a very fancy "typical German" name, Affenbrot!] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sean Posted October 16, 2005 Hallo affenbrot! Willkommen! More seekers from Germany! Seems like ever month or so now I get this great opportunity to embarrass myself with mein nicht so gut Deutch. I'm honored you consider TTB a virtual sangha, and I think it's true what you say about how rare it is to find spiritual groups really coming together to explore awakening outside of a fixed tradition or teacher. It's sad and also true in the Arts if you think about. How often do you see a community where Dancers, Filmmakers, Painters, Musicians, and Novelists all come together to consistently discuss the passions of Art without worrying so much about the specifics of their particular craft? How amazing would that be for all participants?! Anyway, it's great to have you here affenbrot, welcome to The Tao Bums! Tschuess, Sean. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Simon V. Posted October 21, 2005 Hello everybody! For me this group feels like a virtual sangha already. 8043[/snapback] It is a great community of like minds, a Brave New Sangha. It was on the tip of my tongue to ask you if you were German, given the nickname you're using. : ) I lived in Germany for six years, in Stuttgart. Now that I'm back in Canada I still keep in touch with German friends and do some translating on the side. I still find myself saying "bitte" instead of "excuse me" in supermarkets etc. The funny thing is that no one notices; they just edit in the English version without even blinking. I agree re the vibes one can receive via internet contact. Simon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
