Dear friends,

I have posted this message more than 24 hours ago and it doesn't
turn up, so I guess it would have been lost in cyberspace. As such,
I am reposting it.

I am glad to meet up with Florent on June 30 in Queensland,
Australia. Florent has been sharing with us his solutions to the New
Pali Course Part 1 by Ven. Buddhadatta.

Currently, he is touring Queensland with his girlfriend. In our
meeting, I actually shared with him some of my thoughts about the
Kasina colors, as we discussed in earlier messages.

Our discussion deals primarily with practice and pali study. We
discussed about whether to move on to Warder's, or to carry on with
Buddhadatta's Part 2, upon completion of Part 1. No decision was
made.

I also shared with Florent the significance of the Pali Scope
project, an electronic multilingual Pali lexicordance. Currently,
Nina is sharing with us her study on the word Dhamma.

I have posted a photo of us at the Coffee Club in Brisbane CBD on
the group's site:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pali/photos
(Click on the album "Member Meetings")

I hope group members can meet up with each other whenever and
wherever time and location permit. And if possible, share a photo
with the rest of us. ;-)

You may also find in the Photos section another album "BuddhaIndia".
I have spent some time with Google Earth and Google Maps recently.
With a bit of research, I have produced a satellite image showing
the relative position of the four most significant locations related
to the Buddha's life: Lumbini, Bodh Gaya, Sarnath and Kushinagar. On
the image you would also find exact location of Varanasi, Patna,
Lucknow and Kathmandu. The main rivers and waterways, and the
mountain ranges are also rather clear in this image. Hopefully, I
can obtain exact coordinates of the places, and update the image at
a later date. Members are welcome to share photos on places related
to Buddha's life in this album.


metta,
Yong Peng.