Dear Pete and friends,

Kindness is infectious. When little fireflies of kindness gather, you can
find your way even in the darkest night.

This wonderful common energy can help a lot of people. This is of course
best done as a preventive by learning how to keep the mind positive in the
worst of times.

Communicating on the internet, as finger-clicks of pixelled beings, is so
different from communicating and feeling together as living and present
beings. That is why the personal presence of the Buddha is so empowering.

Those who love the Suttas, can, if they are still enough within, feel the
wonderful presence of the Buddha in the Dharma.

When we study the brickwork of the building, we should also often enough
look at the beauty of the whole building, move in and around it, keep it
clean and functional, and share it with others.

Hopefully such occasional breaks from Pali and Abhidhamma will give us P&A
fans more fire and light in the way we work towards our vision, and network
ourselves as a common force of good for the benefit of more beings.

Be well and prosper within and without.

Piya

On 3/12/07, Peter Tomlinson <gnanayasa@...> wrote:
>
> Metta to all,
> As I grow older in my follies and view of the world's repeated sufferings,
> the personal tragedies of so many around me in this America, one of the
> world's richest countries, I see that even here suffering never stops. I am
> privileged beyond so many others yet so limited as well. Transfer of merit
> is something one can do and so is prayer, I don't know if any of that works
> or not. Uposatha observance and of course taking refuge and keeping sila and
> practicing meditation and studying the suttasare all things I have been
> taught to do. And I try to practice all of that while developing a mind of
> loving kindness. I do these things because they are NOT my inclination. That
> inclination is to be concerned only with my self and my desires even to the
> point of destroying any one else who is in the way or whoever I simply wish
> to.
>
> Lord Buddha taught many things, I believe all of them, yet know that
> saddha is not liberating in itself. I am admonished to love others so I will
> begin metta bhavana. If transfer of merit helps others I will do it, if
> meditation and study does that so be it. I do know that this is a dark and
> bloody world that is so lost and dangerous that when we see it as it is we
> can fall into madness and despair quite easily.
>
> That way is no answer, only another round of samsara. You Piya inspire me.
>
> I am glad to be on this site if only to have read your e mail, so
> compassionate and so wise and honest.
>
> Thank you so much
> Pete Tomlinson
>
> Piya Tan <dharmafarer@... <dharmafarer%40gmail.com>> wrote: Even
> some views of the sekhas, saints on the path, short of arhathood, may
> be flawed.
> Only the asekha, the arhat, has full right view. At least in theory.
>
> We can always keep trying and working towards right view, without paining
> one another too much. It's called compassion.
>
> Very often we forget that our ability to discuss some finer points of
> Buddhism, be it philosophy, Pali and meditation, is because we are blessed
> with good health (mental and physical), and some surplus income, and
> perhaps
> some academic qualification.
>
> So Buddhism becomes another "professional" topic like any other.
>
> Today, one of my ex-students emailed saying that his brother has been
> admitted into a local mental health institution because of psychosis. He
> is
> told by Mahayana teachers that "merits" should be transferred to him.
>
> In times like this, I leave the finer points of Buddhism aside, and simply
> say. may these suffering persons grow of their pains, as I am pained too
> to
> know of such sufferings so close to me.
>
> Be well and happy, so that compassion and wisdom can arise when we most
> need
> them.
>
> Piya Tan
>
> Piya Tan
>
> On 09 Mar 2007 07:51:09 -0800, Gunnar Gällmo <gunnargallmo@...<gunnargallmo%40yahoo.se>>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- rjkjp1 <rjkjp1@... <rjkjp1%40yahoo.com> <rjkjp1%40yahoo.com>>
> skrev:
> >
> > > Dera Gunnar ,
> > > and this view of yours (above)is it fallible?
> > >
> > > Is sammaditthi , right view, true and factual, or
> > > fallible?
> > >
> > > The view that the texts are wrong (fallible). Is
> > > that view true?
> > > Robert
> >
> > Every view held by a puthujjana is fallible.
> >
> > Gunnar
> >
> >
> >
> >
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