You can get fudge and fruit cake from this store:
There is the monastery Abbey Store site = www.abbeystore.org -- they have many items, books, food,
etc. There is a bonsai web site = www.bonsaimonk.com -- you may purchase bonsai pots for your trees
(some are expensive). The is also the monastery proper = www.trappist.net Finally, for someone
like you they also have a guest house for retreats = [EMAIL PROTECTED]----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:51
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Subject: Re: Fudge P.S.
But of course I don't eat any sugar myself - I serve it to
visitors!
--- Thomas savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I take it that you are referring to Christian, thus >
Catholic, monks here. Didn't they used to make wine > in
monasteries in France? It seems unlikely to me > that Buddhist
monks anywhere in the world would make > either winre or fudge as this
might be encouraging > intoxication, something which Buddhist monks take
a > precept to abstain from. Still the apparent > reference to
mindful breathing at the end of your > prose poem makes me wonder. This
could be a > completely imaginative work, in which case it >
doesn't matter. Nevertheless, since there are > really monks in
the so-called real world, regardless > of how sheltered they may or may
not live from that > world, it causes one to wonder. > >
Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: Monks > are making it to sell. I first wrote see,
then > frist. What is the matter with this morning except >
the > voltage of unkindness streaming through the net. My >
fingers on the keyboard pick up messages no one > believes were sent.
Dear, Hannah,how deeply did you > absorb? The body chemistry becomes
pseudonymous with > fibers in the hundreds in the thousands
gradually > self-multiplied. My cha is gen mai. I know the word >
for tea from JMB. When monks have finished making > sweets they may
return to cells. When monks return > to > cells they pray. The
swift rays of the sun are > measured at a speed greater than crying.
When monks > come together they enlist the services to form some >
thing to sell so they can live quietly at prayer. I > am > on the
threshold of ordering five books on the > subject > of sustaining
which in the vernacular means making > something last beyond its essence
possibly. Speaking > of which, a group of ad execs were brought
together > to > find something they might do with a failed
heart > drug. > So they looked at what is now Viagra and they
asked > what it could do. Then they invented terminology and >
sold that terminology. Sow's ear propped up on a > throne. Publication
might mean telling everyone what > you will not accept. The priesthood
now will now > appear immune to love of self. Would someone
kindly > pass the fudge? Formed with full intention, >
breathing > in and breathing out. Both individually and in >
community. > > > Sheila E.
Murphy > > > > >
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