Re: Ten Tons of Flax!

Peregin Wildoak — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:33:04 -0000

Hi there Al,

Can I be among the 100 to encourage you in these endeavours? It would be very useful to see the Neophyte analysed in an non-esoteric manner. I have little skills in these disciplines, so go for it.

As for publishing Fuller's work, it would be of great value, for both scholars and Western magicians alike. Again...please go ahead.

Sadly, I waded through most of the 80 odd items on Lulu when I first saw your link; you are right, mostly not worth the bandwidth :)

Peregrin

Re: Starbucks Buddhism?

Peregin Wildoak — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:36:35 -0000

Thanks Al for this post and description.

Down here in Western Australia the only road-show Buddhist teachings are those from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

I did notice however at his public talks last year, here and in Melbourne, that the vast majority of people did not seem to be committed Dharma practitioners. I think it may be due to the limited size of Australia's population, all the seats were not immediately snapped up by Sangha and Dharma folk.

Even his "smaller" (2500 people) 3 day teaching on the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation and Manjurshi empowerment attracted a majority of people who had not previously taken Refuge.

In 5 days we'll be over in Sydney for 5 days of teaching and a Chenrezig empowerment with him, and the publicity machine is full on. There's a count-down, more marketing you can poke a stick at, etc. I am sure i will be required to make an internal effort to stop all this pissing me off.

Still, when compared with rock concerts, I'm not sure which I'd prefer my young teenage son to go to :)

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