--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 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. :-)
Whatever you do, Barry, don't address anything of any substance. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/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/
