dear Gregory, I am also fairly new to Amida Buddhism. The pureland sutra does tell us in faith we will be shown the pureland- but I am sure our salvation must remain questionable, in faith we find strength to doubt and still live the path.
Robert,
Thank you for your prompt answer. What a beautiful msg you gave me about Amitabha.
Another thing concerns me. Accord. to the link below, our salvation is questionable per Shakyamuni & suggests Medicine Buddha & his pure land in the east in c…
dear Gregory, Dharmavidya wrote of ways of practice within Amida Buddhism and you can find them- http://amidatrust.typepad.com/amidashu/81_practice/ from the sutras Amida Buddha lived a long time before Shakyamuni Buddha. and this path of devotional…
I am new in this practice. Please share w/ me what one can do for bliss in this birth & tell me where you obtained that data (sutra). I did read that Shakyamuni is incarnate of Amida. Is that so?
My primary concern is peace in this life. Is it so th…
Havent been here for a while perhapes you would like to come in and say hello a place for disscussing the dharma is always nice and such a place is available with growing membership, it would be nice to see some more views from people here to contri…
Dear friend.
Does this world feel real ? We know from emptiness it is non other then an appearence to mind, all places are appearence to mind, so what stops people from logically deducing from having studied emptiness that such a place as a purelan…
Dear Dharmavidya.
I understand that most buddhists whom see these protests would be initially shockedbut it must be taken into context that the dalai lama and his exiled government where issued with an ultimatum after letters had been sent to them…
I would say so without them we would have very little freedom to do anything....Imagine living in a country where only one religious beleif was tolerated ?
peace
xxx
Hi Caz,
Nice to hear from you and see your interest in "Down under" I have a daughter in NZ and at present live in our small London centre. Do visit if you get a chance. Whereabouts are you?
Namo amida bu