Making the Transition
Hellllooo and Merry Meet, though I'm not writing because I'm new, but because ngakmafaery has accepted me and leaves1 as the new maintainers of the community.
So... Hi, I'm Czarina and Namaste and Merry Meet to you all!
I definitely think this forum is an important one to keep going and to promote, as many of us in pagan and other similar paths and indeed in many spiritual paths are looking to the East for inspiration. I myself have been a student of Taoism for a long time, incorporating many of its ideas of balance and universality into my own personal philosophy. And then along the way I started studying Buddhism as well, so that now my personal pagan tradition has a definite Buddhist flavor to it. Meditation has become an important part of my life. And recently some members of my own local pagan circle have become interested in Buddhism as well. While I do not have a Buddhist center close to me, occasionally I am able to go to Memphis (80 miles away) to visit Dragon Seat Meditation Center with my circle brothers and sisters to attend their Sunday services (Tibetan Buddhist tradition, though the services are in English).
If you are interested in either paganism or Buddhism or both, this is the forum for exploring the blending of concepts and ideals shared and enhanced by both.
You can read more about my personal philosophy HERE.
Let's keep the dialogue going!
OM MANI PADME HUM
Namaste,
Czarina
So... Hi, I'm Czarina and Namaste and Merry Meet to you all!
I definitely think this forum is an important one to keep going and to promote, as many of us in pagan and other similar paths and indeed in many spiritual paths are looking to the East for inspiration. I myself have been a student of Taoism for a long time, incorporating many of its ideas of balance and universality into my own personal philosophy. And then along the way I started studying Buddhism as well, so that now my personal pagan tradition has a definite Buddhist flavor to it. Meditation has become an important part of my life. And recently some members of my own local pagan circle have become interested in Buddhism as well. While I do not have a Buddhist center close to me, occasionally I am able to go to Memphis (80 miles away) to visit Dragon Seat Meditation Center with my circle brothers and sisters to attend their Sunday services (Tibetan Buddhist tradition, though the services are in English).
If you are interested in either paganism or Buddhism or both, this is the forum for exploring the blending of concepts and ideals shared and enhanced by both.
You can read more about my personal philosophy HERE.
Let's keep the dialogue going!
OM MANI PADME HUM
Namaste,
Czarina