Groups

  • Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism
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    Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism
    Status: Member
    Description: A group to discuss the philosophy of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism. People often have a phrase or motto that sees them through difficult or important times. A short saying, a few words,can determinethe course of one's entire life.As we seek a path to peace and happiness based on principles of Buddhism while struggling with life's stern realities, having a guideline by which to live positively is of immesurable value. As Nichiren Daishonin writes, " To teach another something is...like floating a boat upon water so that it may move ahead without difficulty" (The major writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol.5,p.307.
  • Kick in the Tush Club
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    Kick in the Tush Club
    Status: Member
    Description: The Kick in the Tush Club is for light-hearted, low-cal loving, nutritional friendly folks who crave mammoth portions of food-facts, recipes, art and inspiration. We are on a mission! To Make Weight Loss Fun!!! Our guide is Our Lady of Weight Loss. She helped me to lose over 50 pounds 6 years ago. (after a life-time of yo'yo'ing). We will dish the dirt, swap recipes and push, pull and support each other on the road to Sveltesville. (FYI, Sveltesville is where Our Lady of Weight Loss lives.)
  • The Faith Club
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    The Faith Club
    Status: Member
    Description: Have you always had questions about Christianity, Islam, or Judaism that you were too afraid to ask? Now you can get your questions answered, and meet people of a wide variety of faiths, in this group led by the authors of the bestselling book THE FAITH CLUB. The book tells the story of Priscilla, Ranya, and Suzanne: three women of three different faiths trying urgently to understand each other in the wake of September 11 and its aftermath. They’re not afraid to ask each other the hard questions about the other faiths — and you shouldn’t be either. THE FAITH CLUB is the November 2007 featured book of the Exploring Faith Book Club. Sign up now to ask your questions and join the conversation!
  • Devotees of THE LOVE GURU
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    Devotees of THE LOVE GURU
    Status: Member
    Description: Hello Beliefnet! I am his holiness, the Guru Pitka. I am the orphaned child of two American missionaries who after dying left me at a remote Indian village, where I was adopted by the great Guru Tugginmapuddah, and raised to travel the world, healing all emotional woes, free trapped souls from their internal torment, and offer my own brand of spiritual road map for those who seek it. And if YOU seek my spiritual road map this is the group for you! I encourage questions and discussions about loving, feeling, being, my best selling books ("If you're happy and you know it, think again," "Eight days to happiness in six weeks" and many others), playing the sitar, marshmallow yummies for your heart tummy or anything that moves you.
  • Being Ourself
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    Being Ourself
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a group for people who recognize in a profoundly personal way that we are all actually facets of one whole interacting with itself, or more accurately, Ourself. It is a place for peer discussion and exploration as we move through the challenges and insights we encounter while participating in the awakening of ourselves to our common fundamental identity, Ourself. As indivisible aspects of the single, infinitely diverse entity of everything/reality/creation we all have an opportunity and a responsibility to deepen humankind's awareness of Ourself, and to enrich our language with new terminology/ideas to more accurately portray that which truly is. We want to support each other as we discover wholeness while living in a society that defines everything (including God) as separate when in fact the creator and creation (including all people, animals, plants, minerals, and seen and unseen forces of spirit) are not in any actual way separate. So don't be shy... your vantage point of the whole is completely unique, and is just as valid and important as anybody elses. Enlightenment is the recognition of the wholeness, which by its very all-inclusive nature negates the validity of any kind of exclusive spiritual authority or guru. To allow ourselves to truly feel and be aware of ourselves as part of the great wholeness we need to stop putting others on a pedestal as a way of avoiding being accountable for shining our own light. Let's get the orchestra of the wholeness playing diversely, brilliantly, and powerfully enough to wake up humankind from the illusion of separateness. We can only accomplish this as a community of distinct voices and insights singing out in the harmony of the whole, and not by silencing our own special voice because we have decided some other "enlightened" teacher has a monopoly on authenticity! So sing out your insights, your questions... cry out your pains and frustrations... and love your neighbor as yourself because in truth they are; we are all precious dimensions of one whole. Let's respectfully, gently, and lovingly be Ourself together.