Yes, I met her while I was in Kansas City. She is wonderful and highly
effective as a leader. Both an ordained Christian minister and Buddhist priest.
And, the TM movement in the marketplace of spirituality should fear her and a
growing host of people like her combining the love in Christianity
In the battling of spiritual practices within the general or larger “spiritual
but not religious” marketplace, buddhistic mindfulness seems to be widening a
popular lead over transcendent meditation.
Taking a look at the inter-faith programs downtown in Kansas City even now.
There evidently
Re-contextualizing the inter-faith movement..
Emptybill's thread started here comparing Shankara and Buddha seems to uncover
an underlying story with under-tow currents of divergence... Shankara, Buddha,
and Abraham -ic.. In Unity?
In the battling of spiritual practices within the general
Elderly Spiritual-Movements in transition, there is a relevant post about
re-contextualizing spirituality and religion comparing Unity in Kansas City and
meditating Fairfield, Iowa chronicling which examples the facility of two
elderly spiritual groups vying for modern cultural significance..
Om egads, Empty.. This is terribly interesting!
Does the evident antipathy between Buddhism with its Buddhistic practices
like mindfulness and transcendent meditation go back even that far?
In roots of divergence it seems that not only does modern science show us now
they are different
The Buddhists seem to have the language of 'inter-faith' down pat which old
church communities are re-contextualizing and welcoming. Is transcendent
meditation by association with things Vedic seen now as too religious?
Jai Adi Shankara,
-Buck
Om egads, Empty.. This is terribly
I was in Kansas City recently and saw a listing posted on a bulletin board in a
church there of places that are open to group meditations in the general
cross-border Kansas-Missouri region. The list was quite long and incredible
including some places you would expect but also denominational
