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Post by Rudy on Jan 29, 2013 17:11:56 GMT 1
I see that several people are signed in again, like Jeff, Matt, Tamara etc. How are you guys doing in the new year?
I'm still quite busy (understatement) with the new location for the Buddhist center we bought in the Netherlands. It was an old hotel, and now we hope to use it as a basic-level conference center, or place to give workshops etc., with the Maitreya Instituut being the main user. We moved in half November last year, and the most gross building activities on the ground and 1st floor have just about finished now, but finishing everything nicely will still take a lot of time. Fortunate enough, we have a more or less fixed group of volunteers who all come several days a week, so we are plodding along.
Besides the building and fixing things, there is a tremendous amount of work, as we now need to combine the old inventory of our previous center with the existing (pretty complete) inventory of the hotel; an interesting puzzle as every storage space is now filled to bursting. The only way to get a bit of space is starting to newly organize small things again, and sell or throw away excess stuff, and use the little bit of extra space to organize another little aspect. What a teaching in detachment and interdependence!
Love & clear light,
Rudy
Sorry guys, there was a setting wrong in the admin, and I could not see that you could not post messages yet!
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jeff
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Post by jeff on Jan 30, 2013 22:11:19 GMT 1
Hi Rudy and everyone!
I have missed you guys and hope that we can get this new board active again.
I felt terrible for all of the troubles Rudy had. I simply can't understand how someone would intentionally target this site in such a negative way.
As Rudy so elegantly put it, I hope that person does not experience the negative karma associated with it. Perhaps through purification...
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Post by feathers on Jan 30, 2013 22:17:12 GMT 1
Hi! I'm glad this place is back up, and thanks for all your hard work Rudy :-)
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Post by Rudy on Jan 30, 2013 23:17:34 GMT 1
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Post by meru on Jan 30, 2013 23:30:51 GMT 1
Hello, I'm new here, a lifelong Great Perfection practitioner, and generally interested to see what the larger community of Buddhists-Bonpos are feeling! Looking forward to good dialogue/inquiry! Many blessings. Meru
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Post by meru on Jan 30, 2013 23:31:26 GMT 1
As aware of being aware, so aware of being.
Since aware is always here, inseparable from empty absolute and empty relative, what changes?
Naturally, innately awake, presence oneSelf, just as this moment is, without cause or causeless pretense...
Self-recognizing unconditional goodness as space, all possible universes, all possible appearances in awareness…
Self-recognizing unconditional awareness, inseparable from all this, is thus absence and presence.
Where, when, why, how, who or what, is thus mere appearance.
No one is ignorant. All are fully awake in never-ending enlightenment.
The view unconditional goodness witnesses (the Dharmakaya of Dharmakaya), is simultaneously loving all the moment offers as oneSelf.
Since such love is totally indivisible, only one Heart of goodness shines within us all.
Only one presence is here, both you and I and all, as one.
Only one Nature encompasses all as one, and all.
Only one Awareness perceives all as one, and all.
Only one Heart loves and is, one and all.
Only one Clarity pervades, reflecting throughout emptiness.
Only one Goodness is the ground of being, and the peak of wisdom.
Only one Being forever lives as one and all, throughout one's Nature.
Thus you can be no other than That.
That Great Spirit, that God, that Oneness, that individual and omniscient wholeness, that Samantabhadra.
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Post by feathers on Jan 30, 2013 23:38:49 GMT 1
Very happy to see you again, just minutes after you were able to post!  Hehe yeah I happened to be online when the email appeared saying I was authorised |
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Post by gnossos on Jan 31, 2013 1:37:49 GMT 1
What exactly do the EXALT and SMITE links do?
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tamara
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Post by tamara on Jan 31, 2013 2:13:38 GMT 1
Hello Rudy, you finally made it with this discussion board  Would love to be with you working in the new Buddhist Center but am currently involved in building a Children`s Village over here in this hilly area, uff. Hugs everyone, Tamara |
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Post by matt on Jan 31, 2013 5:39:51 GMT 1
Hi everyone! Congratulations on the new forum, Rudy! I'm sorry about those offal hackers, and all the extra work they have caused you. Glad we can talk to all our friends again. Thanks for telling us about your move, that kind of thing is of great interest to me. Sounds like you will be very busy for a long time. It is great you have grown the membership to require and support a bigger place, though. Hooray Rudy! |
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Post by matt on Jan 31, 2013 5:42:11 GMT 1
Wow, great work Tamara! You get in top shape in that country. Up hill or down hill is what I remember.
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Post by Rudy on Jan 31, 2013 23:21:54 GMT 1
Hi Tamara, is that a Tibetan Children's village? Sounds like wonderful work indeed!
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Post by tamara on Feb 1, 2013 0:17:55 GMT 1
Eh, not Tibetan but let us say `Himalayan`....
Tamara
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dan
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Post by dan on Feb 4, 2013 4:25:28 GMT 1
Hey everybody!
For me, the sudden absence of the forum has had me thinking, of course, about impermanence. It also makes me think that so-called negative things like these are necessarily part of the whole deal. If not, we could live in a happy, samsaric utopia, getting everything we want all the time forever, eh?
Good to see some familiar names have returned and many new have shown up. Buddhists can be a quiet lot, though, huh?
Hopefully, not having my "hood ornament," I won't get all rampant ego.
Thanks for bringing it back so quickly, Rudy!
Hope everyone is well!
Prayer for cyberspace by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Namo ākāśagarbhāya oṃ ārya kamari mauli svāhā
Oh bodhisattva mahasattva!
As I prostrate at your lotus feet,
I offer everything I can name and understand,
And all my mind’s conjurings,
As well as everything that exists, inconceivable and undreamed of,
Throughout immeasurable space.
To you, who are the very essence of space,
I offer praise.
Bless this cyber-space with comfort, bliss and enlightenment—
May it be of benefit to myself and others.
Unburden our misgivings;
Purify all that sullies and despoils us,
And the profligate displays,
That throng and colour this space.
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Post by Rudy on Feb 5, 2013 9:56:54 GMT 1
Wow, a great prayer that is Dan!
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matt
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Post by matt on Feb 7, 2013 7:34:48 GMT 1
Really, that is a wonderful prayer. Thanks Dan.  So I haven't found much time or need to write in the last couple of weeks. I am busy with a new course I have never taught before, and my day job, and I usually respond to what is already being talked about. It is nice to know I can, though. I feel like we have managed to forge some real friendships on this forum. And i am hoping that others we met along the way will show up, and I am sure there will always be new folks coming along as always. So busy, but otherwise relaxed and looking forward to what you all might say, or I might, you know.... |
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Post by bonita on Feb 7, 2013 22:17:25 GMT 1
Hi All... Although i seldom post I do follow much of the discussions and am learning much from them. i have been hearing how the Chinese have been hacking at almost all aspects of their adversaries at present. Perhaps that dark view is what has been causing Rudy and this wonderful site so much trouble, which i pray are in the past for good. Namaste
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matt
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Post by matt on Feb 8, 2013 18:50:29 GMT 1
Hi All... Although i seldom post I do follow much of the discussions and am learning much from them. i have been hearing how the Chinese have been hacking at almost all aspects of their adversaries at present. Perhaps that dark view is what has been causing Rudy and this wonderful site so much trouble, which i pray are in the past for good. Namaste Hi Bonita, Yeah, I remember talking with you and reading your posts a few years ago. I had no idea you were still with us. I think you should speak up more. If you can't think of anything to say, just say, "Hi" |
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Post by bonita on Feb 9, 2013 4:41:34 GMT 1
Hi All... Although i seldom post I do follow much of the discussions and am learning much from them. i have been hearing how the Chinese have been hacking at almost all aspects of their adversaries at present. Perhaps that dark view is what has been causing Rudy and this wonderful site so much trouble, which i pray are in the past for good. Namaste Hi Bonita, Yeah, I remember talking with you and reading your posts a few years ago. I had no idea you were still with us. I think you should speak up more. If you can't think of anything to say, just say, "Hi" Namaste Matt...i try an come in and read once a week which is much easier to accomplish in the winter when i am kept in the house because of weather. My grandbabies keep me busy. I'll start adding a post when i come in and thanks for the welcome. My life is not as interesting as some here, just trekking the path as best i can. Be well |
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Post by Pattie StP on Feb 12, 2013 19:19:49 GMT 1
Once I'm approved I won't have tokeep being a guest. But I've been reading the forum history and I guess something bad happened in cyberspace. I'm sorry. This forum is very friendly. Most forums I've joined usually have people posting without answering. But here there is conversation. Thank you Rudy. I will visit the Buddhist Center in the Netherlands one day. My son has friends in the Netherlands and all over the world. I'll visit with my son. I include the Center in the Netherlands in my daily prayer. Best regards to you.
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