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genkaku Veteran
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- genkaku
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- Northampton, Mass. U.S.A.
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Re: I haven't been meditating as often as I should be
Make a promise, keep a promise. And if you don't keep a promise, take responsibility for that action. Investigate the encouragement, "Go out and sin some more." (View Post)
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Re: Karmic effect
Strange to think how insistent Buddhists can be about controlling or limiting 'bad' karma and controlling or expanding 'good' karma and yet controlling or limiting things is not really an option ... … (View Post)
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Re: Karmic effect
Well, you're thinking about it. Does that count as 'karma' in your book? (View Post)
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Re: Pentagon Meditation Club
A strange confluence, that between the military objectives and the encouragements of religion. I don't know of a religion/spiritual persuasion that does not say, give or take a little, "thou sha… (View Post)
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Re: Buddhism and magic rituals
In the Zen practice I limped along in, what others referred to as "magic" were capacities of a less important sort. OK, there were 'magical' powers, but, as my mother once observed about le… (View Post)1