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I just realized I haven't officially introduced myself.
My name is Annie, but you can call me Anya. I've been studying Buddhism for almost 2 years now, but I've only practiced it's teachings for... well... I started last year, fell out of practice and recently picked it back up.
My other interests include video games, writing, drawing, music and movies.
Name: Genevieve
Age: 21
Sign: Leo
Hair: Red
Eyes: Green-blue with a little gold in them too.
Height: 5'5
Weight: 135 lbs
Born: Memphis, TN USA
Live: As above
Favorite book: My Sister's Keeper, Harry Potter, Stephanie Plum, ect
Favorite band: changes weekly
Favorite food: pineapple and green grapes
Favorite movie: too many to list
Favorite colour: Purple. Green.
Ok. To begin, I was raised in a very religious, multi-denominational Christian home. My father is Methodist, and my mother is Holiness (a version of penecostal, almost). I even was baptized in my mothers religion. Alot of stuff I have always wondered about and questioned. then I took a hiatus from religion, and enters a dark time but also one of the biggest growing periods of my life. I am nearing the end of that hard, painful journey now, and as I near the end, I have found the teachings of the Buddha. I have only been reading into this for a week or so now, but I feel so peaceful, so excited, so... spiritually charged when as I learn more about this lifestyle, this philosophy, this religion... however you may classify it. I am here basically to continue questioning, and learning with people. Tomorrow I plan to go to a temple to speak with someone, but I want this online community as well. Luckily my boss has been a devout Buddhist for 16 years, so I have his guidance right now as well. He has given me a book called "The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness" by Pema Chodron. I plan to use the teaching of the Buddha when it comes to my Christian beliefs. I want to study the Bible and the works of the Buddha equally and use my logic and meditation for the truth of my personal enlightenment to come to me. I hope we may all help one another grow!
Welcome Genevieve (I love that that name!)
I wish you the best of luck on your path to discovering/ understanding buddhism. I know what you mean, first coming across buddhism is a very exciting ordeal! From what I have expirienced, as well as what others have said, your original view of buddhism will change and develop as your understanding and practice develops... but it is a maturing change that slows everything down and puts it into perspective. Continue to question and learn and things will become a lot more throrough and interesting (more than they already are )
You're lucky to already know a buddhist and have the resources to expand your horizons. I hope your visit with the temple tomorrow is nice, best of luck, I look foward to getting to know more about you!
Ashley
Hiya Genevieve, if I may do so, I must complement you on your eyes For a minute I thought they were red but luckily I realised my mix up I like your name too. You do seem to be lucky and so I wish you more luck in you journey. I hope you enjoy the temple and your book too
You seem to have a good plan I like the bible sort of. I've read a wee bit, I don't personally believe it (no offence) and have a few differences in my moral beliefs but that aside a good book LOL. I hope you enjoy Buddhism as I have and that your beliefs work for you, I've had a few paths before I found this one and I greatly enjoy Buddhism (apart from an afair with Wicca but I'm over that LOL) and I plan to stick with it. I hope your beliefs find themselves for you
Love & Peace
Joe
Hello everyone! I am brand new to the site and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Alex, I'm a 22 year old male, a senior in college. I'll be receiving my B.S. in Geographic Science in May!
As far as Buddhism goes for me. I've never been a religious person. Ever. My mother was raised christian, my father was raised Jewish. However they both disagree with 'religion' and always believed that my siblings and I should have an open mind to all things. My interest in Buddhism and Eastern Thinking in general came from my father, who when he was in college studied Hinduism and lived in India for an extended period of time.
I'm still learning, and part of the reason I chose to join this forum was so I could learn more! It has taken me 22 years, but for the first time in my life, I finally feel like I belong somewhere (buddhism).
Hey guys, I was happy to find this forum floating out in google land. I have recently started studying Buddhism through a path that lead from the LOA. It's a domino effect of sorts I suppose. Anywho, not much for introductions but 'Ello and all that good stuff.
Hi all ) I'll do the question format I found earlier in the thread....
Name: Rena
Age: 39
Sign: Aquarius
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5' 7''
Weight: An exercise in impermanence
Born: Oklahoma City, US
Live: Small town in rural central Oklahoma
Favorite book: "Celine" by YA author Brock Cole
Favorite band: R.E.M., but like lots of folk-rock also
Favorite food: Mexican
Favorite movie: The Princess Bride, Amelie
Favorite colour: Green.
I don't call myself a Buddhist, but the more I read about Buddhism the more I see my thoughts and experiences reflected in its philosophy. And it strikes me as full of common sense. I'm trying to learn more and am actively applying it to my life.
I guess the biggest thing that has brought me to this point is impermanence. In a short stretch of time, nearly all of my family died. At the same time I was trying to conceive a child and it wasn't working. My husband and I went through about 10 years of thinking we couldn't get pregnant. Then, after I'd finally come to terms with all of this ... accepted it ... I found out we were having a little girl. Without even trying!
Yup, things turn on a dime. I thought for a while that my biggest lesson in this life was coming to terms with change, but of course I'm not so special. It's everyone's challenge. And, as I found out, blessing.
So ... I spend my days and nights taking care of a very attached 5 month old, and as she sleeps on my shoulder I explore websites like this one. I have to say this one has felt very welcoming and its members genuine.
I would love to visit a couple of sanghas in my area to take basic Buddhism classes, but the little one's bedtime interferes. She's proving to be an effective Zen master herself though! I guess the learning is where you find it.
I'm married with 2 daughters, 8 and 10. I've been fascinated by Buddhism for nearly 25 years, going back to an elective course in it that I took in college, though I was majoring in engineering and friends thought I was crazy. As of now, I do identify myself as a Buddhist if asked. I do, however, attend a Christian church with my family at times. I see no issue.
I'll get my major "attachment" out of the way...I have a fairly serious car hobby. I'm actually an admin at a site for Subaru WRX's, which are a favorite of young enthusiasts for fun driving and modification. I'm the "old guy" over there.
Glad to be here. Still trying to find a Buddhist forum that feels like home. :rolleyes:
Hi Jenn, nice little intro
Hiya Rena, the people on here are generally very nice I'm sorry to hear about your losses but happy to see you hear and even more happy to see you have a daughter after all that time
Hi Ray, this place is my e-home...
I just wanted to say hi to everyone. I decided to try out a buddhist forum because I was interested in its teachings. Ive been reading allot of books lately on this sotra stuff. Books like:
The art of living
Ways of the superior man
the power of now
mastering your hidden self
As well as participation in other forums on this sort of thing. I know very little about Buddhism. But what ive realized in my readings is that thousands of years ago there were many people who came to the same kind of realizations that budda himself discovered (or so I understand).
I suppose for me a large goal is to one day reach enlightenment. I want to become awakened to truth and be completely free. I have been actively practicing my learnings over the last 3 months.
I look forward to reading your posts and asking lots of questions!
Hi my name is alexander hall. I'm 24 and from florida. I love music and am majoring in music education. I love to learn as well as philosophy, psychology, and people or sentient kind as it were. I have found the culmination of these in buddhism and am and avid laypractitioner of zen. I love buddhism because it is so simple and accessable to me. I also love the fact that for me it seems to embrace many world views concerning religion. It also offers a valuable practice for developing the virtues of all of them as well as insight into there nature. I know that I will learn form all of you and I hope that I can bring some good to the table
It's great to hear you're interested in Human Rights. A very beneficial job:) I'd like a beneficial job so I'd like to work in the areas of Religious Education and Animal Conservation. Shouldn't be too hard as long as I keep up my currect intelligence. I'm top set science, maths, english, and RE
Anyway, Hiya :wavey:
Hi, and, I know, it should be very beneficial, it will, hopefully, get me somewhere where I can be helping a lot of people, I don't exactly know what I want to do yet, but, I know that my perfect job will be helping people (basically, to help stop, or relieve, their suffering - very Buddhist!).
Animal Conservation and Religious Education sounds like something very cool, and very needed, especially at this current time of rising Fundamentalism.
I'm sure you'll go far - you're definitely smarter than I was - I was bottom set Maths for GCSE (& still got an E!), and kind of middle for Science, English I was really good at though.
Hi my name is alexander hall. I'm 24 and from florida. I love music and am majoring in music education. I love to learn as well as philosophy, psychology, and people or sentient kind as it were. I have found the culmination of these in buddhism and am and avid laypractitioner of zen. I love buddhism because it is so simple and accessable to me. I also love the fact that for me it seems to embrace many world views concerning religion. It also offers a valuable practice for developing the virtues of all of them as well as insight into there nature. I know that I will learn form all of you and I hope that I can bring some good to the table
Thank you
Alex
Hi Alex, that's quite a cool subject you're doing, and I also like learning about Psychology too. Zen interests me as well.
Hiya Alex :wavey:
David, I'd like to work in the area of animal conservation at the minute. I'd like to take all my subjects LOL. Then again there's different areas of each subject, I'll just take which areas will help me best. If I make everyday like today I could get far. I did great at languages (know all my subjects in French) and completes all my calculations in maths (or le maths) with spare time. Was the best at overcoming optical illusions in RE (or histoire-geo), have some great ideas for my story in English (or le anglais) and could play the piece of piano music we were given in music (or musique) off by heart and played a new piece of music exellently in my tenorhorn lesson. An extremely productive day me thinks, now I just have to keep it up
Love & Learning ()
Joe
RE is part of the curriculam, Palzang, in all schools. We even have to take it as a subject. In my school we HAVE to take PE, RE, maths, English, science, an art (it's an arts college too) and four other subjects, AT LEAST. GCSEs are end-of-school exams.
OK. Remember, we don't have the same abbreviations over her in barbarian land. And they've probably all changed since I was in school anyway. I hear they don't even use stone tablets to write on anymore! Can you imagine?
I think they should combine PE with RE. Call it PRE. Save a letter...
'That's it children, meditate, and again, meditate, come on, you can do it! Start that praying! And pray, and pray, and pray. Good class now start reciting that passage! Good, get those lips working. And now class discussion. And discuss. And discuss. Come on, your pathetic! Start woking that point of view, work it, work it.... ect'
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to say hello, and that I'm happy to find a community of like-minded individuals. I've been on the spiritual path for a few months now, and it feels like home.
Hello everybody !
Well, I'm kinda new here, i hope i don't get lost. Ooh, yeah , I forgot my intro !
Now...
Name: Robert;
Age: 17 (nearly 18);
Sign: Pisces;
County: Romania...
Now, i guess that's a start...I'm not really good at introducing myself yo' know ?
Don't know if I did this yet, If I did never mind!
Name: Brother Bob AnGyo Brown (also; Joy of Transformation, Bhakta, Pilgrim, Loco Viejo Monje Buddhista, and a couple others I won't publicly display or can't remember right now)
Age: 57 (no wonder I can't remember - oldtimers disease)
So, NomaD (love your avatar btw), how are things in Romania these days? I know things were pretty tense in post-communist days. Are things better there now? Are the vampires minding their manners?
Well, these days in Romania... it's snowing like hell! And yes, these post-communist days are really tense.It's hard for me to explain why, it's like a looong long story.
Oh, and my vampire friends say hello to all the newbuddhist community !!
Well, these days in Romania... it's snowing like hell!
Well, we've got something in common! Supposed to get about 20 more inches today and tomorrow...YIKES!
I was in Mongolia in 2005, and they were also struggling with their post-communist withdrawal pains. Very difficult. Many people missed the old days when all your needs were taken care of - job, healthcare, education. Now for most people it's a real struggle. But they also don't have the mass extermination of Buddhist monks, destruction of all the monasteries and temples, disappearances of dissidents, etc. So it's better in the long run, and they are slowly climbing out of the worst of it.
And tell your vampire friends to just suck it up...
I was in Mongolia in 2005, and they were also struggling with their post-communist withdrawal pains. Very difficult. Many people missed the old days when all your needs were taken care of - job, healthcare, education. Now for most people it's a real struggle. But they also don't have the mass extermination of Buddhist monks, destruction of all the monasteries and temples, disappearances of dissidents, etc. So it's better in the long run, and they are slowly climbing out of the worst of it.
Palzang
I know, some people here in my country miss the "old days". But in Romania there weren't any really religious destructions. The only destructions and imprisonments and executions were only for people who preached democracy(western, american values) instead of the communist principles... And about the religion in that time, communist could not afford to blow up the medieval orthodox monsteries. If they did that the next day the whole country would rise agains them. Instead, they used it as propaganda, to tell the people how great were the voyvods (medieval rulers of Romania), who built churched and monasteries after kicking the Ottomans' a**es
Well, in guess in went offtopic, but i'll open a topic about the bloody history of my country.
I know it would be interesting, but I won't find the time to write about it. Tomorrow, I go to school (again:( ) after a short holiday, and...I would have lots and lots of homework...blah-blah-blah...But, maybe I'll find time to write about it in he evening . (Romanian time)
Comments
I'm currently reading The Art of Happiness by Howard C. Cutler, good book
Greetings,
Joe
My other interests include video games, writing, drawing, music and movies.
Age: 21
Sign: Leo
Hair: Red
Eyes: Green-blue with a little gold in them too.
Height: 5'5
Weight: 135 lbs
Born: Memphis, TN USA
Live: As above
Favorite book: My Sister's Keeper, Harry Potter, Stephanie Plum, ect
Favorite band: changes weekly
Favorite food: pineapple and green grapes
Favorite movie: too many to list
Favorite colour: Purple. Green.
Ok. To begin, I was raised in a very religious, multi-denominational Christian home. My father is Methodist, and my mother is Holiness (a version of penecostal, almost). I even was baptized in my mothers religion. Alot of stuff I have always wondered about and questioned. then I took a hiatus from religion, and enters a dark time but also one of the biggest growing periods of my life. I am nearing the end of that hard, painful journey now, and as I near the end, I have found the teachings of the Buddha. I have only been reading into this for a week or so now, but I feel so peaceful, so excited, so... spiritually charged when as I learn more about this lifestyle, this philosophy, this religion... however you may classify it. I am here basically to continue questioning, and learning with people. Tomorrow I plan to go to a temple to speak with someone, but I want this online community as well. Luckily my boss has been a devout Buddhist for 16 years, so I have his guidance right now as well. He has given me a book called "The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness" by Pema Chodron. I plan to use the teaching of the Buddha when it comes to my Christian beliefs. I want to study the Bible and the works of the Buddha equally and use my logic and meditation for the truth of my personal enlightenment to come to me. I hope we may all help one another grow!
I wish you the best of luck on your path to discovering/ understanding buddhism. I know what you mean, first coming across buddhism is a very exciting ordeal! From what I have expirienced, as well as what others have said, your original view of buddhism will change and develop as your understanding and practice develops... but it is a maturing change that slows everything down and puts it into perspective. Continue to question and learn and things will become a lot more throrough and interesting (more than they already are
You're lucky to already know a buddhist and have the resources to expand your horizons. I hope your visit with the temple tomorrow is nice, best of luck, I look foward to getting to know more about you!
Ashley
You seem to have a good plan
Love & Peace
Joe
As far as Buddhism goes for me. I've never been a religious person. Ever. My mother was raised christian, my father was raised Jewish. However they both disagree with 'religion' and always believed that my siblings and I should have an open mind to all things. My interest in Buddhism and Eastern Thinking in general came from my father, who when he was in college studied Hinduism and lived in India for an extended period of time.
I'm still learning, and part of the reason I chose to join this forum was so I could learn more! It has taken me 22 years, but for the first time in my life, I finally feel like I belong somewhere (buddhism).
Anyways, Hello to All!
Hahahah, Nice to meet you Jenn I like your intro-- short, sweet and too the point.
Name: Rena
Age: 39
Sign: Aquarius
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5' 7''
Weight: An exercise in impermanence
Born: Oklahoma City, US
Live: Small town in rural central Oklahoma
Favorite book: "Celine" by YA author Brock Cole
Favorite band: R.E.M., but like lots of folk-rock also
Favorite food: Mexican
Favorite movie: The Princess Bride, Amelie
Favorite colour: Green.
I don't call myself a Buddhist, but the more I read about Buddhism the more I see my thoughts and experiences reflected in its philosophy. And it strikes me as full of common sense. I'm trying to learn more and am actively applying it to my life.
I guess the biggest thing that has brought me to this point is impermanence. In a short stretch of time, nearly all of my family died. At the same time I was trying to conceive a child and it wasn't working. My husband and I went through about 10 years of thinking we couldn't get pregnant. Then, after I'd finally come to terms with all of this ... accepted it ... I found out we were having a little girl. Without even trying!
Yup, things turn on a dime. I thought for a while that my biggest lesson in this life was coming to terms with change, but of course I'm not so special. It's everyone's challenge. And, as I found out, blessing.
So ... I spend my days and nights taking care of a very attached 5 month old, and as she sleeps on my shoulder I explore websites like this one. I have to say this one has felt very welcoming and its members genuine.
I would love to visit a couple of sanghas in my area to take basic Buddhism classes, but the little one's bedtime interferes. She's proving to be an effective Zen master herself though! I guess the learning is where you find it.
.
Name: Ray
Age: 43
City: Charlotte, NC
I'm married with 2 daughters, 8 and 10. I've been fascinated by Buddhism for nearly 25 years, going back to an elective course in it that I took in college, though I was majoring in engineering and friends thought I was crazy. As of now, I do identify myself as a Buddhist if asked. I do, however, attend a Christian church with my family at times. I see no issue.
I'll get my major "attachment" out of the way...I have a fairly serious car hobby. I'm actually an admin at a site for Subaru WRX's, which are a favorite of young enthusiasts for fun driving and modification. I'm the "old guy" over there.
Glad to be here. Still trying to find a Buddhist forum that feels like home. :rolleyes:
Lovely to meet you all!
Hiya Rena, the people on here are generally very nice
Hi Ray, this place is my e-home...
This is just my brief introduction.
Have a good one.
I just wanted to say hi to everyone. I decided to try out a buddhist forum because I was interested in its teachings. Ive been reading allot of books lately on this sotra stuff. Books like:
The art of living
Ways of the superior man
the power of now
mastering your hidden self
As well as participation in other forums on this sort of thing. I know very little about Buddhism. But what ive realized in my readings is that thousands of years ago there were many people who came to the same kind of realizations that budda himself discovered (or so I understand).
I suppose for me a large goal is to one day reach enlightenment. I want to become awakened to truth and be completely free. I have been actively practicing my learnings over the last 3 months.
I look forward to reading your posts and asking lots of questions!
Thank you
Alex
Think you meant to put this under the "NewBuddhist Member Introductions" thread though (or rather, should have)...
I have some Zen associates in Florida:
http://www.zaltho.org/
Claude AnShin Thomas is a really great teacher. I recommend checking him out!
Welcome to the party!
Hi, and, I know, it should be very beneficial, it will, hopefully, get me somewhere where I can be helping a lot of people, I don't exactly know what I want to do yet, but, I know that my perfect job will be helping people (basically, to help stop, or relieve, their suffering - very Buddhist!).
Animal Conservation and Religious Education sounds like something very cool, and very needed, especially at this current time of rising Fundamentalism.
I'm sure you'll go far - you're definitely smarter than I was - I was bottom set Maths for GCSE (& still got an E!), and kind of middle for Science, English I was really good at though.
I'm not sure what school Love'N'Peace goes too, but, over here, RE is part of the Curriculum, at least, till GCSE level, then it becomes optional.
Also, thanks, sorry for just getting to this now, and I'll be sure to let you know what I eventually go into.
David.
Hi Alex, that's quite a cool subject you're doing, and I also like learning about Psychology too. Zen interests me as well.
Anyway, good to see you
David.
David, I'd like to work in the area of animal conservation at the minute. I'd like to take all my subjects LOL. Then again there's different areas of each subject, I'll just take which areas will help me best. If I make everyday like today I could get far. I did great at languages (know all my subjects in French) and completes all my calculations in maths (or le maths) with spare time. Was the best at overcoming optical illusions in RE (or histoire-geo), have some great ideas for my story in English (or le anglais) and could play the piece of piano music we were given in music (or musique) off by heart and played a new piece of music exellently in my tenorhorn lesson. An extremely productive day me thinks, now I just have to keep it up
Love & Learning (
Joe
Uh, you're assuming I know what "GCSE level" is?
Palzang
I think they should combine PE with RE. Call it PRE. Save a letter...
Palzang
Thanks for lightening the day.
Palzang
'That's it children, meditate, and again, meditate, come on, you can do it! Start that praying! And pray, and pray, and pray. Good class now start reciting that passage! Good, get those lips working. And now class discussion. And discuss. And discuss. Come on, your pathetic! Start woking that point of view, work it, work it.... ect'
Palzang
I just wanted to say hello, and that I'm happy to find a community of like-minded individuals. I've been on the spiritual path for a few months now, and it feels like home.
Well, I'm kinda new here, i hope i don't get lost. Ooh, yeah , I forgot my intro !
Now...
Name: Robert;
Age: 17 (nearly 18);
Sign: Pisces;
County: Romania...
Now, i guess that's a start...I'm not really good at introducing myself yo' know ?
Hello Robert, nice to have some fellow youngins around here
Don't know if I did this yet, If I did never mind!
Name: Brother Bob AnGyo Brown (also; Joy of Transformation, Bhakta, Pilgrim, Loco Viejo Monje Buddhista, and a couple others I won't publicly display or can't remember right now)
Age: 57 (no wonder I can't remember - oldtimers disease)
Residence: Vidya Priory, Salem, Oregon, USA
Buddhadharma Training: long-time novice monastic (maybe lifelong
Favorite Saying Related to Training: 'Don't mean "s..t"' by Mr. Natural, Zap Comic Books, late 1960's.
Interest here: learning to communicate more skillfully, in community, about training.
It's lovely to meet you both and I hope you find this site as friendly and helpful as I have.
Great to see so many young people! I can't get over it!
Hiya Robert, as Now-is-Reality and Brigid have said nice to see more youngens
Hello Brother Bob :wavey: I believe we've met? LOL
Love & Peace
Jellybean
Newbuddhist is the new Facebook!
Palzang
Yeah, it would be !
Palzang
Oh, and my vampire friends say hello to all the newbuddhist community
Well, we've got something in common! Supposed to get about 20 more inches today and tomorrow...YIKES!
I was in Mongolia in 2005, and they were also struggling with their post-communist withdrawal pains. Very difficult. Many people missed the old days when all your needs were taken care of - job, healthcare, education. Now for most people it's a real struggle. But they also don't have the mass extermination of Buddhist monks, destruction of all the monasteries and temples, disappearances of dissidents, etc. So it's better in the long run, and they are slowly climbing out of the worst of it.
And tell your vampire friends to just suck it up...
Palzang
I know, some people here in my country miss the "old days". But in Romania there weren't any really religious destructions. The only destructions and imprisonments and executions were only for people who preached democracy(western, american values) instead of the communist principles... And about the religion in that time, communist could not afford to blow up the medieval orthodox monsteries. If they did that the next day the whole country would rise agains them. Instead, they used it as propaganda, to tell the people how great were the voyvods (medieval rulers of Romania), who built churched and monasteries after kicking the Ottomans' a**es
Well, in guess in went offtopic, but i'll open a topic about the bloody history of my country.
Palzang
Palzang