http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/ True Shin Buddhism Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:22:52 GMT Paul http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1945 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1945 Dharma Friends - I want to continue with our ongoing discussion of the Three Pillars of True Shin Buddhism. These three core concepts (or pillars) are the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:11:59 GMT Paul http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1944 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1944 zen_pilgrim: I am interested in Shin Buddhism as what I have come to know, it comes closer to my personal faith. Welcome, zen_pilgrim, to our online Sangha. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:21:11 GMT RayS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1943 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1943 Hi All: I simply want to thank Amida and my sangha brothers and sisters for the compassionate calling of Amida and support of this sangha as I am asking Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:35:12 GMT Shin02143@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1942 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1942 Hello, sylmeyrous, I just wanted to warmly echo the welcome of Ray and Paul. The only "practice" of True Shin Buddhism is "deeply listening" to the Dharma. I Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:21:36 GMT Ray Shepard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1941 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1941 YES indeed; Welcome, sylmeyrous.  We are a sharing and teachnig sangha, and I have been oh-so-blessed in my relatively short inclusion here.  By all means, Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:17:55 GMT Ray Shepard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1940 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1940 ...and this is the place to which I seem to be arriving, Paul.  I have never had problems setting preconceptions aside when I encounter truth.  That it has Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:13:04 GMT Ray Shepard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1939 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1939 Hi, Paul: I have reserved a copy of "Tannisho: Passages Deploring Deviations of Faith and Rennyo Shonin Ofumi: The Letters of Rennyo" on deck on Amazon.  Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:00:57 GMT Ray Shepard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1938 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1938 WOW!  Jason, what else can I say in response to this TRUTH?  My eyes are opening, I guess, for I am almost immobile with astonishment and gratitude for Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:00:21 GMT Paul Roberts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1937 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1937 Paul wrote: Also, I encourage anyone who has read the Tannisho, and finds it valuable, to write a review of it (like I did) on amazon. We want to leave as Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:00:21 GMT Ray Shepard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1936 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1936 I bow in deep gratitude, Rick.  Such a magnificent truth, such an almost incomprehensible power of truth-in-action, is difficult to endure because of it's Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:48:34 GMT Ray Shepard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1935 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1935 Paul: You write: "One of the great goals I have for us is that we will remember - and remind ourselves and the larger Sangha - of what Master Shinran had to Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:43:32 GMT Paul http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1934 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1934 sylmeyrous writes: Hello, I am new to shin buddhism. I appreciate the teachings much and feel the need to discuss them with other for better understanding. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:00:13 GMT Paul http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1933 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1933 Ray writes: I know that I am not perfected in SHINJIN, Paul, but I need to express what I have in my heart and mind in order to gain some perspective on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:35:14 GMT Paul http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1932 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1932 Ray writes: My deep appreciation, as always, for your patient explanations to my questions. I ask that I may know; I know that I mau understand, and from that Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:11:01 GMT norwayjason http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1931 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/true_shin_buddhism/message/1931 Jason writes: The fact is that, without any plans whatever, I'm given countless opportunities in my life to do good for others and to live Shinjin. Many times,