"Travel, my son, giveth experience, and experience wisdom, and wisdom every good thing: the sword cannot gleam in the field of victory till it leaves the scabbard, nor the pen discourse of eloquence and poetry, till it is taken from the kullumdan"
-- Asiatic Journal of British India
The Buddha enjoined male and female recluses to be wanderers. Not only was it a frugal and environmental way to live, many spiritual benefits come to the practitioner. Samanas ("wandering ascetics") were going against the grain, in the opposite direction of settled, temple-bound brahmin priests.
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Bhikkhus ("monks") and bhikkhunis ("nuns") live dependent on discarded cloth sown together and recycled as robes and alms gathered the way "a bee gathers nectar -- without harm to flowers in the collection process," that is, without begging or insinuating. The benefits of the mendicant path were never limited to monastics, as this environmentally-conscious American couple are proving.
So many questions left unanswered in one of America's most evil, subversive, and tragic moments. Let's look more deeply into one theory that says the CIA (U.S. warlords known as The Company) actually was the quasi-governmental agency behind JFK's assassination. There is some compelling evidence to prove it.
Burmese meditation master and scholar-monk Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw is considered by many to be the leading
Buddhist jhana teacher alive today. Tina Rasmussen and Stephen Snyder
were taught personally by the Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw, who then authorized
them as the first Western lay people to teach the serenity (samatha) practices as
the Sayadaw taught them.
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