[Buddha-l] Tovanna: Insight meditation in Israel

[Richard Hayes]

On Saturday 28 July 2007 07:15, Graeme Lyall AM wrote:

> Some friends of mine in Israel who run Bhavana House in Tel Aviv were
> interested enough to forward the following information in response to my
> forwarding your post.

Thanks for the clarifications. When Dr Fulder was in Albuquerque he talked 
mostly about the work of Middle Way, but he also handed out a flier about 
Tovana. I had had the impression both from him and from conversations with 
Stephen Batchelor that Stephen was more of a regular feature than the two 
visits Graeme Lyall's friends report. I had not know about the Christopher 
Titmus connection. Thanks for all the new (or at least more accurate) 
information; I'm sorry for any misrepresentations in my earlier post.

One of the things I had intended to convey, but probably didn't convey as much 
as I had wanted, was how impressive I found Stephen Fulder's manner. He came 
across as remarkably careful and measured in his way of speaking and was able 
to speak without anger or sentimentality about the tremendous suffering that 
people in that part of the world have been experiencing. The first noble 
truth was very much alive, as were the ones that follow. He gladdened the 
hearts and inspired the minds of many people when he was here. His next stop, 
as I understand it, was Taos, New Mexico (another one of the many places on 
this earth that has known enormous sorrows for a few thousand years).

On a slightly different but related topic, have any of you read the small 
article by Vanessa Sasson in the Summer 2007 issue of Tricycle, pp. 86-89? 
Any impressions or reactions? (In a separate thread I'd also like to solicit 
reactions to Bob Sharf's reflections on Buddhist modernism in that same issue 
of Tricycle. I'll send something on that in a while.)

-- 
Richard Hayes
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
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