What is the opposite of Hyperbole? Litotes doesn’t fully fit, but I think there is another word that describes this understatement.
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I GOD Y’all so much!!!
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shared the “crystal drawing” with @Agama yesterday who was in Turkey last week and she saw a burka in this drawing (because of the strength of the eyes). she went looking for the meaning of Burka and it’s Allah’s protection… and of course… I thought of you 
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wonderful video
Surprisingly, I have naturally kept dedicating my day and creations to sentient beings every night since Pure Lands Pilgrimage! I add extra intuitive singing after, along with some intuitive movements.
I think around the fourth or fifth day of this pilgrimage to the Pure Lands, I did what Robert Moss calls “Bibliomancy” with Andrew’s book “Preparing to Die”. Opening it “randomly” led me to page 271 to a very clarifying sentence:
“(…) knowing that all sentient beings have been our mothers.”
This has helped me in understanding the importance of this simple practice and this morning I was contemplating that perhaps that’s why it stayed with me. Thank you @Andrew 
I God it!
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Dr Joe P I think mentioned this and more in one of his meditation videos this year I think.
‘That we have all been a mother at some point in our pasts lives to sentient beings, and vice versa.’
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the chanting on this video is truly beautiful and enchanting…
at the moment I’m totally into the one we learned with Andrew… It has become automatic inside of me. The last time this happened was when I was initiated to Divine Intervention, in 2011, where we also learned a powerful mantra that stayed with me for several years…
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Same. This one is in my view more for just listening…and practicing the “HOLD” in the spaces in between 
I also practice what we learned.
And now looking forward to the dark retreat! Unfortunately ‘only’ online, but still…
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I deliberately wanted to participate in a “Buddhist” retreat to see what it is all about. And - of course - I really like Andrew, how he transmits knowledge combined with a lot of humor and everything else.
Always resonating with (studying and somehow practicing) the Buddha’s teachings without calling myself a Buddhist (as I really don’t know what it is other than another ad-on-identity) I was still holding an ‘inferiority complex’, making myself believe that an ‘eclectic path’ like mine, with living teachers (on different stages of awakening guiding me), could not be compared to a life dedicated to one path, like ‘real Buddhists’ do (in my mind). Now I learned that not only is it not necessary to compare anything…really… but that I have all along been engaging in many of the suggested practices: vipassana, hand on heart meditation (I have been doing this for several years every morning, more out of despair of waking up in fear and pain and not having really another option than to feel and drop into it!) and the HOLD! to stand still, sit still or whatever and just feel the moment.
This retreat was a great experience, providing so much clarity and an all encomopassing acceptance that I am doing the best I can just like everybody else - independent of the path, orientation, inclination.
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This makes me so happy to hear, and I am a firm believer that you can be both a Christian & do Buddhist practices, or a Muslim and do Buddhist practices. In fact, from the religions I have studied, most seem to deeply align with the powerful teachings of:
Clean thoughts
Clean speech
Clean actions
etc…
great image here. could not paste:
The beauty of the 8fold path is its not a path at all. Its a set of virtues that will help anyone clean up the negativity in their lives, and in doing so helps them get closer to God.
These 8 virtues help people align their hearts and minds with that of God. They are designed to help people become more compassionate, more merciful, and more patient. Something the world desperatley needs right now.
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yes, I am also very attracted to doing a dark retreat… in a cave for 49 days. Don’t know when it will happen. I have a strong calling to be doing it with Andrew.
This online I think it will be AMAZING. My schedule for that time is really showing this is not the time to do it.
same here… in the last year, through NCC I discovered I’m practicing Vajrayana for years now… without knowing it, because I LOVE it, and indeed dedicating it to the highest good of all.
exactly… when there is no comparison we realize we are doing our best, all the time. We can only say “I’m lazy and selfish” if comparing to other people… if you consider Madre Theresa of Calcuta, Ghandi or Padmasambhava, of course you can feel this… but if you connect with yourself, you can realize that - as you so weel wrote:
this is so true… I wrote something in 2009 “All paths are heading to the heart”
so beautiful
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Yes. Wonderful! And at the end of the day it’s about implementing the teachings as in the pic in every day life - just living it.
Thank you.
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A cave resonates with me as well, but… hm… we’ll see if and how life will present it. For a start it will be this retreat. And swimming with you and dolphins in dream-space 
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Beautiful article - well put together. Thank you - (the Alan Peto one, I mean…).
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Amen 
I am very jealous
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ai ai ai… did not expect this… wonderful to know you are thinking about this…
you know I love you exactly as you are… meaning that I don’t really want to change anything in you… and as your Sister, I can share with you things that might make you even a more incredible person (if you give me this permission), even closer to the best version of yourself, where your potential shines bright… because I care for you … having this said, there was a major shift in my life, a few years ago, when I stopped saying what you wrote… I changed it into “I am very inspired” (by you)…
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Stumbling upon this awe inspiring thread for the first time, I am so grateful to all here, having also just completed Andrew’s Pure Lands playshop. ( sounds more accurate than workshop, yes? ) Anyhow, I love that you included the word mistakes in naming this thread! It reminds me of a quote by whom I don’t recall that Andrew shared; “ Error after error after error on the Errorless Path” 
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touché! that’s it!
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I have started singing the mantra we learned with Andrew.
What I noticed is that when I say it only mentally, it runs in one of my three, sometimes four brain lanes. Did you notice that? I can be running a mantra inside, and have another lane of thoughts, sometimes an extra one and rarely but sometimes, a fourth one!..
Singing it out loud, besides giving all the benefits of singing, makes it possible for a maximum of 2 lanes running inside at the same time… uuuuuffff!
Singing “Om Ami Dey Wa Hri” is… Divinely beautiful…
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