Hi Bill, lol (From what I can tell, s/he sent 95% of the 'r's to the gogs in the north! ;-) )
Beverley. ________________________________ From: Bill! <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 26 May, 2011 11:22:55 Subject: Re: [Zen] Newbie - hello & question Beverley and Mike, I have a good joke about Wales: When God was creating languages he got tired toward the end, so on the two remaining languages he sent most of the consonents to Wales and most of the vowels to Hawaii. Oh well, I thought it was funny when I first heard it...Bill! --- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote: > > Shwmae Beverely, > > Dw'n dod o Gaerdydd yn wreiddiol ond nawr dw'n byw yn Siapan. Dych chi'n > siarad >Cymraeg? > > Tell your daughter she's making a great decision to come to Japan! I've been >here almost 7 years and still love it. The language isn't too difficult, but >it's a good idea to learn as much as she can before coming over. I'm in Kyoto >if >she ever wants to visit : ) > > Nos da, Mike > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Beverley Huish <beverley.huish@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2011, 18:05 > Subject: Re: [Zen] Newbie - hello & question > > >  > Bore da Mike, >  > I live in Cwmbran (I'm from Chepstow, but I moved to Cwmbran 17 years ago), > so >Cardiff is only just down the M4 a bit. My daughter hopes to visit / live >in Japan one day, she's been teaching herself Japanese. >  > :-) >  > Beverley. > >  > > > > ________________________________ > From: mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 23 May, 2011 12:39:01 > Subject: Re: [Zen] Newbie - hello & question > >  > Hi Beverley, > > I live in Japan now, but Cardiff is my hometown! Where in South Wales do you >live? > > > > Cymru am byth! > > Mike > > > ________________________________ > From: Beverley Huish <beverley.huish@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 0:24 > Subject: Re: [Zen] Newbie - hello & question > > >  > Hi Mayka, >  > Thanks for your welcome. :-) I'm in South Wales, about 15 miles from Cardiff. >  > It's interesting to know that you can do a study in that at university, but >that's not for me. I'm trying to find my place within life / beyond material >life. I don't believe in God, in the way that Christians believe in God (a >guy >on a throne looking down at us crossly from heaven), but I have come to >believe >that the way I percieve the Universe and the Earth loosely translates into >seeing them as gods, or deities. >  > I 'discovered' Thich Nhat Hanh last week(! ;-) ) and want to find out more >about the Community of Interbeing and probably join it. I've sent off a >couple >of emails about it and am waiting for replies. >  > :-) >  > Beverley. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, 17 May, 2011 12:40:34 > Subject: Re: [Zen] Newbie - hello & question > >  > Hello Beverly: > Just wanted to welcome you to the group. There is a Career University Studies >of comparative religions. There was someone from the USA doing that here at >Edinburgh Universty. Saying this in case you may be interested in connection >with your post and question you ask. > > And as for me I'd like to intruce myself to you as Mayka. My background in > in >zen buddhism in the Thich Nhat Hanh Tradition since 1997. > > Have to warn you that due to circunstances I have evolved in a very > personal >way that may differ from what is the TNH tradition. > > In addition I'd like to let you know that I don't pay much attention to the >form of any spiritual tradition. Experience of life has taught me to trust >only the heart and since you are a believer of God, let's say I only believe >in >what connects me with the universal, with the heart of God, with the Chaos. > > That > connection allows me just to flow with the ocean of life, and the chaos too! > Warm welcome again. > Mayka > > > --- On Mon, 16/5/11, Beverley Huish <beverley.huish@...> wrote: > > > >From: Beverley Huish <beverley.huish@...> > >Subject: [Zen] Newbie - hello & question > >To: [email protected] > >Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 16:38 > > > > > > > >Hi, > > > >I'm a newbie in this group, and to Buddhism. I sincerely don't want to > >upset >anyone or start an argument. I want to join in this discussion, and this has >cropped up so I'm asking the question. > > > >I told a friend today that I feel Buddhism is for me, and I'm looking into >Zen. My friend replied that Tibetan Buddhism is a more spiritual type of >Buddhism because they believe in God. Having looked into various types of >Buddhism, he believes that the Buddha communicated higher information, >including the existence of God, to Tibetan Buddhists because they were more >spiritually evolved at that point - Tibetan Buddhists claim this is the case >and >my friend agrees with them, he says. My response was to say that different >things appeal to different people and I don't think it's a matter of one being >more 'spiritual' or more 'true' than another. (I really don't care what >might considered 'higher' or more 'spiritual' - at the moment that is >irrelevant to me. However, it did seem a kind of un-Buddhist thing to claim >that oneself is better than another person? My friend is not a Buddhist.) > > > >What do other people think? > > > >Thank you. :-) > > > >Beverley. >
