<> Emptiness of Silence <>
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
scenery appeared deeper in silence where existence meandered on a
sacred path of peace and tranquillity. In the cosmic ocean, waves of
matters have been impermanently created in different forms, and when
destroyed, all forms return to the emptiness of silence. Meditative
living is sustaining an empty mind of attentive observation, in which
state, one is the Universe.
Rexsy
Rexsy.com
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Lexsie2008
Jim
"Dr. Tuan T. Ho" <Tuan.T...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Greetings Dr. Tuan T. Ho,
Just listening to a few of the clips you've offered.
The music is soothing..., easy to meditate to.
Are you the composer?
Jim
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
> "Dr. Tuan T. Ho" <Tuan.Thanh...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:b3f1353a-7265-4b0a...@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com...
Thanks Jim, for your kind feedback!
Yes, I've done various things including science, philosophy,
meditation, and music compositions.
You may download free music/symphonies MP3s from my website www.Rexsy.com
Cheers!
Rexsy (Dr. Tuan T. Ho)
Rexsy.com
Julian
Very few adverts, well done... Cheers.
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
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Thx Julian, appreciate your comments!
Enjoy the download MP3s!
Cheers!
Rexsy
Rexsy.com
Julian
Oops... spoke to soon... I note yet another in a long line
of charlatans trying to use Buddhism and usenet Buddhist fora
to make money... http://www.rexsy.com/miscellaneous
and claiming copyright on the words of the Buddha.
Nothing for sale, all free, here... http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
> and claiming copyright on the words of the Buddha.
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Greetings Julian!
It is natural to raise funds for any type of endeavors including
scientific and humanitarian works...
Please keep your ignorant comments to your own benefits...
Warmest Regards,
Rexsy
Rexsy.com
Julian
Begging for dollars may be natural for you but
the teachings of the Buddha go against the stream
and such money grubbing is rejected.
> Please keep your ignorant comments to your own benefits...
No.
Rexsy
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>
> > Greetings Julian!
>
> > It is natural to raise funds for any type of endeavors including
> > scientific and humanitarian works...
>
> Begging for dollars may be natural for you but
> the teachings of the Buddha go against the stream
> and such money grubbing is rejected.
>
> > Please keep your ignorant comments to your own benefits...
>
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My Dear Julian,
The Buddha, with his monks, did beg for food/money everyday (on
regular schedule) in order to survive upon teaching his Dharma to the
World...
It's only natural, isn't it?!?
So, please go back and study the history of the Buddha and remove the
dust of your ignorance, so at least, you yourself may benefit from
it...
Cheers!
Rexsy
Julian
Your OPINION has been noted
along with the total lack of evidence to back it up..
> So, please go back and study the history of the Buddha and remove the
> dust of your ignorance, so at least, you yourself may benefit from
> it...
"Although the Vinaya specifies a prohibition on accepting and handling
gold and silver, the real spirit of it is to forbid use and control over
funds, whether these are bank notes or credit cards. The Vinaya even
prohibits a monk from having someone else receive money on his behalf.
In practical terms, monasteries are financially controlled by lay
stewards, who then make open invitation for the Sangha to ask for what
they need, under the direction of the Abbot. A junior monk even has to
ask an appointed agent (generally a senior monk or Abbot) if he may take
up the stewards' offer to pay for dental treatment or obtain medicines,
for example. This means that as far as is reasonably possible, the
donations that are given to the stewards to support the Sangha are not
wasted on unnecessary whims.
If a layperson wishes to give something to a particular monk, but is
uncertain what he needs, he should make an invitation. Any financial
donations should not be to a monk but to the stewards of the monastery,
perhaps mentioning if it's for a particular item or for the needs of a
certain monk. For items such as travelling expenses, money can be given
to an accompanying anagarika (dressed in white) or accompanying
layperson, who can then buy tickets, drinks for a journey or anything
else that the monk may need at that time. It is quite a good exercise in
mindfulness for a layperson to actually consider what items are
necessary and offer those rather than money."
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/layguide.htm
Rexsy
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My dear Julian,
You're being "too innocent" to follow the human rules in the world of
religions...
The Buddha never did make such rules...even his own Dharma was said to
be temporary, impermanent, not really true Dharma (in his words)!
So, how could human rules remain to be true in the world of Buddhism
(compared to the Buddha's Dharma)?!?
Only if you're "ignorant" enough to follow such rules...
Peace,
Rexsy
Julian
I note your abject failure to provide any evidence whatsoever
to backup your claim that...
halfawake
"Julian.com -- the anti-Spam site!"
Robert
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halfawake
you seem to be reactive to this accusation of Julian.
Rather than answer the charge specificially, you tell him to basically
"bug off."
would you say that Julian has disturbed your equanimity and universal love?
If so, it is too easily shaken.
Perhaps you have created a veneer of love that is holding down some
other less pleasant emotions?
If so you should take a look at that.
Robert
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Dr. Tuan T. Ho
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>
> >Greetings Julian!
>
> >It is natural to raise funds for any type of endeavors including
> >scientific and humanitarian works...
> >Please keep your ignorant comments to your own benefits...
>
> >Warmest Regards,
>
> >Rexsy
> >Rexsy.com
>
> you seem to be reactive to this accusation of Julian.
> Rather than answer the charge specificially, you tell him to basically
> "bug off."
> would you say that Julian has disturbed your equanimity and universal love?
> If so, it is too easily shaken.
>
> Perhaps you have created a veneer of love that is holding down some
> other less pleasant emotions?
> If so you should take a look at that.
>
> Robert
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Movement and Stillness are One...
The night remained utterly silent in dark beauty, where all things
meditated deeply into the soft moonlight of sacred divinity...
Fascinating!
Rexsy
RaaN
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> > >Greetings Julian!
>
> > >It is natural to raise funds for any type of endeavors including
> > >scientific and humanitarian works...
> > >Please keep your ignorant comments to your own benefits...
>
> > >Warmest Regards,
>
> > >Rexsy
> > >Rexsy.com
>
> > you seem to be reactive to this accusation of Julian.
> > Rather than answer the charge specificially, you tell him to basically
> > "bug off."
> > would you say that Julian has disturbed your equanimity and universal love?
> > If so, it is too easily shaken.
>
> > Perhaps you have created a veneer of love that is holding down some
> > other less pleasant emotions?
> > If so you should take a look at that.
>
> > Robert
>
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> Movement and Stillness are One...
> The night remained utterly silent in dark beauty, where all things
> meditated deeply into the soft moonlight of sacred divinity...
> Fascinating!
>
> Rexsy
Nocturnal predators
Tear the entrails out from posers
Too dumb to find shelter
--
RaaN.
halfawake
Buddha did not sell anything. He and his disciples begged -- in person
-- for their food for the day, nothing more. They went from door to
door. They did not sell the teachings, did they?
Re-read, yourself, You may find that the Buddha's lifestyle does not
justify your sales plan.
For myself, I have nothing against you selling your musical works. But
I do have a little problem with you likening yourself to the Buddha to
justify it to a Buddhist. That is utilizing the Buddha for your own
personal gain, and shows an ego that you have not disclosed properly to
yourself.
halfawake
I see; you claim justification from the Buddha's practices when
convenient, and disavow them when they cease to serve your personal
aims. Well done! A true demonstration of hypocrisy at work!
LaoW...@wuxin.com
wrote:
>alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan,alt.philosophy.taoism,alt.philosophy.zen,alt.yoga,alt.religion.buddhism
Just a cautionary note, this is Xposted to the above, which is at
least 5 ngs too many ;-)
To avoid washing blood with blood (further) please do not reply.
--
LaoWombat
alt.philosophy.taoism: all aspects of taoism
halfawake
sounds like something you memorized. do you pull that out when you want
to avoid an uncomfortable question? if so you misuse your own poetical
vision of reality!
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
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My sweet RaaN,
To be dumb is to be enlightened...
Dumb to hear...dumb to see...dumb to be innocent of sufferings...which
is a Great Mind!
Congratulations! You're so wonderful!
Cheers!
Rexsy
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
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My wonderful Robert,
Sorry about on your blind judgement on Rexsy's status...Who never
claimed to be likening the Buddha, nor justifying anything to any
Buddhist whatsoever in the first place...Anyway, with compassion, I do
forgive your misjudgement in the profoundly moving of beauty and love,
and wish you great Enlightenment in the near future...
The gentle clouds rested over the mountain peaks, under the glorious
skies of an early summer morning. The beauty of "forgiveness" is to
penetrate one’s insight, knowledge, and understanding into the
infinite structure of phenomena, which may sacredly be followed by the
deep meditative absorption into the vast immense emptiness of the
Superconsciouness. With the profound comprehension of the cosmic
architecture of matters, via powerful observation, the meditative
omniscient knowledge of the mind exerts universal mastery over subtle
matters in the silent moving beauty of the Universe.
Peace for All!
Rexsy
Rexsy.com
halfawake
please don't attempt to forgive me for something that I haven't done.
you should check your own delusion on this matter as you seem to be in a
frothing whirlpool of self-certainty and inability to hear others.
>and wish you great Enlightenment in the near future...
>
>
thank you, that I will accept. If I do achieve great enlightenment, I
will attempt to help you from your own delusions, so it is always a good
idea to wish such to others. I hope that sometime soon you will emerge
from the shadow of enlightenment and experience the real thing.
>The gentle clouds rested over the mountain peaks, under the glorious
>skies of an early summer morning. The beauty of "forgiveness" is to
>penetrate one’s insight, knowledge, and understanding into the
>infinite structure of phenomena, which may sacredly be followed by the
>deep meditative absorption into the vast immense emptiness of the
>Superconsciouness. With the profound comprehension of the cosmic
>architecture of matters, via powerful observation, the meditative
>omniscient knowledge of the mind exerts universal mastery over subtle
>matters in the silent moving beauty of the Universe.
>
>
all the above is bullshit, not because it's not true, but because you
pronounce it in a froth of denial.
>Peace for All!
>
'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
Robert
= = = = = = = = = = =
Keynes
Full of it. No sale.
RaaN
bliss in ignorance
serves only the miserly
dumb to suffering
--
RaaN
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
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My wonderful friend Robert!
May God guide you towards deep understanding of the wordly phenomena,
and help calming you down from the conflicting states of Samsara...
You're full of beauty and great compassion (of course, without the
worldly angers and frustrations!)
We love you dearly for who you are, my friend!
Cheers!
Rex
Rexsy.com
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
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Oh my darling friend RaaN,
You're such a great guy!
The world has learned so much from our dialogues...
Kindly appreciate it!
Cheers!
Rexsy
tara
(in article
<cd910035-eeff-4f60...@v8g2000prm.googlegroups.com>):
>
> We love you dearly for who you are, my friend!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Rex
> Rexsy.com
Who is "we"?
small tortoiseshell
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>
> > My dear Julian,
>
> > You're being "too innocent" to follow the human rules in the world of
> > religions...
> > The Buddha never did make such rules...even his own Dharma was said to
> > be temporary, impermanent, not really true Dharma (in his words)!
> > So, how could human rules remain to be true in the world of Buddhism
> > (compared to the Buddha's Dharma)?!?
> > Only if you're "ignorant" enough to follow such rules...
>
> I note your abject failure to provide any evidence whatsoever
> to backup your claim that...
> "The Buddha, with his monks, did beg for food/money everyday (on
> regular schedule) in order to survive upon teaching his Dharma to the
> World..."
I bought a living chicken, a bag of rice and some black dal to a
family wrecked by poverty begging in the street here a couple of days
ago. There is no doubt in my mind that they were buddhas. It was the
daughter that wanted the chicken though. Parvati, aged four. She
stated her need for meat clearly, and her teaching of the Dharma was
exellent, in my opinion. So of course...
Long live the buddhas :)
Rexsy
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:36:59 -0400, Dr. Tuan T. Ho wrote
> (in article
>
>
>
> > We love you dearly for who you are, my friend!
>
> > Cheers!
>
> > Rex
> > Rexsy.com
>
> Who is "we"?
Everything in Existence...for Compassionate Love is omnipresent in the
Universe!
Peace & Love,
Rexsy
Rexsy
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>
> > > My dear Julian,
>
> > > You're being "too innocent" to follow the human rules in the world of
> > > religions...
> > > The Buddha never did make such rules...even his own Dharma was said to
> > > be temporary, impermanent, not really true Dharma (in his words)!
> > > So, how could human rules remain to be true in the world of Buddhism
> > > (compared to the Buddha's Dharma)?!?
> > > Only if you're "ignorant" enough to follow such rules...
>
> > I note your abject failure to provide any evidence whatsoever
> > to backup your claim that...
> > "The Buddha, with his monks, did beg for food/money everyday (on
> > regular schedule) in order to survive upon teaching his Dharma to the
> > World..."
>
> I bought a living chicken, a bag of rice and some black dal to a
> family wrecked by poverty begging in the street here a couple of days
> ago. There is no doubt in my mind that they were buddhas. It was the
> daughter that wanted the chicken though. Parvati, aged four. She
> stated her need for meat clearly, and her teaching of the Dharma was
> exellent, in my opinion. So of course...
>
> Long live the buddhas :)
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Beautiful Loving Kindness!
Congratulations!
Cheers!
Rexsy
Sevenhundred Elves
Well done, Little Shell! But I'm surprised to learn that you have
whole families wrecked by poverty in the UK, begging in the streets. I
thought you had some kind of welfare system like most of the rest of
Europe. Or am I mistaken, and you live somewhere else?
<Followups set to alt.zen>
S.
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
> The rain softly touched the forest of innocent vitality. The beautiful
> scenery appeared deeper in silence where existence meandered on a
> sacred path of peace and tranquillity. In the cosmic ocean, waves of
> matters have been impermanently created in different forms, and when
> destroyed, all forms return to the emptiness of silence. Meditative
> living is sustaining an empty mind of attentive observation, in which
> state, one is the Universe.
>
> Rexsy
> Rexsy.comhttp://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Lexsie2008
Love for All :)
"Seeing the quietistic beauty in all phenomena is directly perceiving
the great sacred emptiness, for One is All, and All is One..."
Cheers!
Rexsy
Hollywood Lee
. . between the sheets.
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
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...between the sheets...of unconditional love... ;)
Cheers!
Rexsy
norbu....@gmail.com
Tuan/Rex -
This strife started over you asking remuneration for shipping cds.
Obviously the blank cds cost money and mailing costs money and the
time to record them if it interferes with work costs money...
Julian's point is not open to debate : The Buddha specified that the
dharma was free, in no
uncertain terms, never to be charged for. These days there is a bit of
a gray line as translators and publishing companies usually (but not
always) sell books to support further
translations.
Point of fact - monks are allowed to beg for food twice a day
etc...and - no, no one is allowed
to sell the dharma for profit. Even Tantric offerings are nothing like
that - when Marpa came
from Tibet and offered the Indian Naropa bags of gold dust with such
an idea Naropa took up
the gold dust and threw it into the wind. The dharma cannot be bought
or sold. Covering costs
for making the dharma available is okay, but one cannot refuse sharing
the dharma if it's a
question of wealth or poverty...if the there is a media to make it
free then do so...
Not judging you - a friend on the path.
- n.
halfawake
Amen, brother. Now time to get to the "microcosmic circulation." Yum!
Dr. Tuan T. Ho
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Good point...
BTW, Rexsy's Music, etc., are free for All... ;)
Cheers!
Rexsy
Rexsy.com