Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00095)

I wish you the best of luck and success in establishing your group.

-Mark H.

Gary Barnhart wrote:
> Friends and fellow students,
>
> My energy is being directed toward the establishing a Theosophical 
> study group in the Austin, Texas, USA area. The group will begin 
> meeting in January,2007. There are already a few interested persons 
> and a meeting place. If you know of someone in that area who may be 
> interested please have them contact me through my tel. (512) 619-4747 
> for further information. No prior, present , or future society or 
> lodge or other group affiliation is required or requested.
>
> As I am unsubscribing to this discussion site, I will share with you 
> my most favorite of all aphorisms that can be used at any time and 
> which I ask myself every morning to reinforce my way in life 
> regardless of whether I agree or disagree with another's opinions or 
> views. This is taken from the small but powerful book "The Way To 
> Freedom" by His Holiness The Dalai Lama.
>
> "Our state of mind is so important that whenever the Indian master 
> Atisha met someone, the first question he would ask was, "DO YOU HAVE 
> A KIND HEART TODAY ?" I trust and believe that simple question is the 
> key to all humanizing, altruistic, compassionate, and harmonizing 
> conversation and action, thus many times during a day I ask myself 
> that question as a reminder. This is not my possession, it is the 
> question that may be used by all humankind to release ourselves from 
> bondage of selfishness, fear and delusion, and keeps one in the key 
> priorities of mindfulness and introspection which are the soil for the 
> foundation stones of virtues upon which our temple of the heart and 
> brotherhood is built.
>
> Wishing you a happy life and a kind heart,
> Gary Barnhart
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