Hello contemplative friends, thank-you Lex, Rose and cunadream04 for posting your messages to this list. And, welcome to the 31 new members to this list. ...
Hello Jeffrey: Some thoughts that might perhaps be of service in the dilemma many often find themselves in regard to the differing phraseology the book...
In a message dated 5/2/2006 5:38:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Thanks, Glenn! I couldn't have said it better! The Lakota call it "Wakan," the Druids call it...
Hello Lex: Just my opinion, but from reading considerable background history on Bill and Bob over the years, I've the feeling Bill might have well liked movies...
-Cool equation Mark! I guess one could have a lot of fun forging more spiritual equations... Here's one: (Ei+Ri)G=S for: (Ego-image plus Reality-image)...
While I appreciate that the "program of Alcoholics Anonymous has no desire to get in the path of our personal spiritual journey, (but) simply a desire(s) to...
Hello Jeffrey and everyone. ... <jhanananda@...> wrote: "If, however, the AA model when it was born could have been extended to address addiction in more...
Hello Jeffrey: I can offer my own perspective and experience, and AA's stated purpose herein as some answer to your questionings or pondering's, but I don't...
"Our entire point of view can be altered by making one change to align with the principles of the Great Spirit. Let's say we decide to become respectful. As we...
hello everyone, i agree wholeheartedly with BB Glenn. I also was on the highway to death, driving through hell... And the total understanding of people with...
Hi I now realize that many of you might not be buddhist, so here's a quick definition of concepts: -Maitri (sanskrit)= Metta (pali)= 'bienveillance' (french)=...
Hello friends of contemplatives_in_recovery, Lex, Glenn, Alain, Mark, and thank-you all for expressing your points of view and experience with sobriety within...
In a message dated 5/3/2006 4:55:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... ________________________ Hello Jeffrey: Personally, I don't believe it would be impossible to...
Actually it is no secret at all, but when you ponder the capacity we have to screen it from our worldy minds, you can be forgiven for thinking it may as well...
hi jeff, i was hoping for a personal response from you rather than those dozens essages about recovery. yhey fill my account like junk mail... could you do ...
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In a message dated 5/3/2006 10:29:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Bhikkhu Jhananda, Hmmmm...Perhaps this is how it looks from the outside. Yet, AA, in spite...
In a message dated 5/4/2006 10:03:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Thanks for your post, Dave. This statement speaks to the heart of all that matters. When I...
In a message dated 5/4/2006 10:03:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Jeffrey, I wonder if we can FOUND an ecumenical recovery program. I mean one that is not...
In a message dated 5/4/2006 10:03:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... HAHAHAHA! Good one! Here's a little Red Road Zen: "If you leave the Big Book on the...
Hello Eric, alain, glowsome, BigBookGlenn, Lex, and others. Thank-you all for posting your most interesting points of view in recovery and the contemplative...
Hello Lex and Glenn, recovery in a nonsectarian language will no doubt begin with Christians reading the Vedas and the Buddhist sutras, and Buddhists and ...
Hello Jeffery: As good a proposition in first beginnings toward a nonsectarian approach as I've heard, for recovery applications or for just plain ol' civil...
Well I think it will never work, I wil let you in on a kinda underground thing that is going on throughout the world, The Old Calendar Orthodox Christians from...
Hello: There are those who thought we'd never see AA in countries outside America, turned out they were wrong. And There are those who thought we'd never see...
Here's a little reality regarding "OUR Big Book IS the Wind and the Rain." It looks to me like YOUR Big Book is a booze substitute. Instead of being drunk on...
Well forgive me if my writing seems so 3rd grade, I dont write at all, and well a thrid grader probally does write better then me... if you look around at the...
Virtue Understanding the Wholesome State ( An excerpt from ) By Dhammaccariya Sotapanna Jhanananda (Jeffrey S. Brooks): Tucson, AZ Updated April 19, 2006 ...
Hello Gilbert: I don't recall any place in my last reply to you that I was derogatory about your writing, nor your literacy, and certainly never approximated...
In a message dated 5/6/2006 3:57:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... ________________________ Hello Jeffrey: Thank you. I found your writing both very interesting...
