--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > On Jul 7, 2006, at 6:03 AM, sparaig wrote: > <snip> > > > Are you claiiming that the Dali Lama > > > didn't send Benson to look > > > at the best practitioners that he was aware of? > > > > IIRC the authorization was only for novices. For more advanced > > practitioners it would violate their vows. Those with the proper > > initations into inner tantra can receive permission to observe > > some of the more accessible "floaters" for inspiration in their > > own practice. > > In other words, yes. So the question becomes, why on > earth would the Dalai Lama have sent Benson to look > at people he knew would be novices?
Have you ever *met* Herbert Benson? HHDL may have sent him somewhere -- anywhere -- just to get rid of him. :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
