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BlueRaincoat
United Kingdom
1730 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 19 2020 : 4:46:40 PM
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Originally posted by Blanche
Leonard Cohen was following the Buddhist Zen tradition. He was a student of Roshi Kyozan Joshu Sasaki of the Rinzai school, which emphasizes the seated meditation on koans to attain kensho (seeing into one's true nature) as a way to enlightenment. There are some moving accounts of Cohen's care for his very old teacher.
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Dogboy
USA
2193 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2020 : 8:52:07 PM
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I came up with a new name that resonates more with where I am now, Samyaman. Samyama has come to mean so much to me as a practice and way of being in the world
Im not sure you can switch names mid-stream (maybe Christi or Yogani can weigh in) Interpaul Samyaman, but I will gladly address you any way you like.  |
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BlueRaincoat
United Kingdom
1730 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2020 : 05:09:46 AM
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Originally posted by Zaelithe
When I was in my teens and just getting really interested in spirituality, I decided to give myself a secret name which I would tell no one ever. My youthful idea was that if anyone ever addressed me by that name or I read something related to it, it would somehow be really important to me (yeah, I know ). Well, the decades went on, the name was never used and I went down many spiritual pathways and blind alleys - and then I arrived at AYP. Like others, I lurked awhile, just reading and absorbing. Then one day I decided to register and in that moment knew I had found the place where I could express myself without reservation or fear. And so Zaelithe it is........
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BlueRaincoat
United Kingdom
1730 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2020 : 05:11:42 AM
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Lovely to hear from AYPers who don't post very often.
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Originally posted by Running Water
My name is inspired on a saying of my favorite philosopher (Herakleitos) "Panta Rhei " or "you can never step in the same river" . Water is always running , life is always chaninging , so I chose Running Water 
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Nirguna
Australia
57 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2020 : 12:59:43 AM
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Hello everyone.
What a trivia!!! Thanks for starting this topic Samyaman 
I wanted to to sign in with a name Nobody but that would be confusing in conversations. So, I opted for Sanskrit version Nirguna. Literally No-Quality (Nir-Guna). Hopefully one day I will embody Nirguna name fully. Or, shall I say dis-embody Nirguna name entirely? Hmmm... |
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lightandlove
Germany
85 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2020 : 04:58:49 AM
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A few years ago I went to a huge hippie festival for 10 days 24/7 music. I took my camera with me and decided to put a label on it with my phone number so in case I would loose it and someone finds it he or she may contact me. Then it came to my mind to write "spread love and light" on it, so the one finding it or someone stealing it would be inspired by that and decide to not keep it but give it back 
I thought this would be a good name for the forum as people who read it may feel some love and light while doing so :) |
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kensbikes100
USA
192 Posts |
Posted - Dec 22 2020 : 11:27:17 PM
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| My screen name is based on one of my other passions, riding/building/designing bicycles. That interest has been with me since I was 7 years old! |
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interpaul
USA
524 Posts |
Posted - Dec 23 2020 : 12:16:56 PM
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| Enjoying all the additional posts. What an awesome and interesting group of people. Thank you all for your engagment and satisfying my curiosity. |
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jclone
United Arab Emirates
61 Posts |
Posted - Dec 25 2020 : 05:50:30 AM
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| You guys may laugh but it's ok. My screen name was my first love's name. We've never been long since he has joined our Lord at a very early age. |
Edited by - jclone on Dec 25 2020 06:08:08 AM |
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maheswari
Lebanon
2516 Posts |
Posted - Dec 25 2020 : 11:00:01 AM
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@jclone
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chas
USA
209 Posts |
Posted - Jan 01 2021 : 1:56:17 PM
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Chas is my actual name.
Happy new year!
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Edited by - chas on Jan 01 2021 2:06:32 PM |
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SparklingDiamond
Australia
227 Posts |
Posted - Mar 14 2021 : 07:25:38 AM
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| From the movie "Moulin Rouge" Nicole kidman. I look nothing like her tho. I have dark hair dark eyes, and brown skin. :-) |
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interpaul
USA
524 Posts |
Posted - Mar 14 2021 : 12:17:20 PM
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| SparklingDiamaond, She can be your avatar. It's a lovely online name. |
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jclone
United Arab Emirates
61 Posts |
Posted - Mar 15 2021 : 06:56:56 AM
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| Nicole was superb in that movie! Sorry I'm just a big fan of her. |
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snake
United Kingdom
265 Posts |
Posted - Mar 16 2021 : 04:13:03 AM
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| I used to play Crimson Skies online and SsSsSsSnake was my handle in that wonderful combat flight game,made some great worldwide friends.What I’ve used since around 2010 is GeminiTiger,that’s my birth sign plus Chinese sign lol |
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interpaul
USA
524 Posts |
Posted - Mar 16 2021 : 12:03:35 PM
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| Snake, So interseting. I'm not familiar with these online games but I've come to appreciate the avataric aspects of an online persona, which includes the name. When I've played Mario Kart with my son and my car falls off a cliff I have a little anxiety every time I die! |
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Dogboy
USA
2193 Posts |
Posted - Mar 16 2021 : 4:08:09 PM
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Mario Kart is my kind of heaven.  |
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SparklingDiamond
Australia
227 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2021 : 03:58:57 AM
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Thanks Interpaul. Sparkling Diamond is an amazing dancer in Moulin Rouge. And I adore dancing! Thus why I chose it.
I have been following the indian sage Dandapani who grew up here where I live. Dandapani's guru whom at the age of 7 was asked what he would love to do, answered "I want to dance"
He was fortunate enough to be taught dance by Mystics, (obviously his karma too) and was renouned to be one of the most famous ballet dancers of his time, in America. Before he renounced it all to live a life of a Saddhu (holy man in India) |
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SparklingDiamond
Australia
227 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2021 : 04:03:43 AM
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SeySorciere
Your name is very bewitching! And has satiated my curiousity on what it actually means. Sorcerer/Soreceress! :-) |
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jclone
United Arab Emirates
61 Posts |
Posted - Mar 19 2021 : 06:14:46 AM
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Originally posted by Dogboy
Mario Kart is my kind of heaven.
I love Mario Kart! :O |
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Gabereal
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - Apr 20 2021 : 12:31:44 AM
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| It’s my name |
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SeySorciere
Seychelles
1532 Posts |
Posted - Apr 20 2021 : 02:26:39 AM
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Originally posted by SparklingDiamond
SeySorciere
Your name is very bewitching! And has satiated my curiousity on what it actually means. Sorcerer/Soreceress! :-)
Thanks!
Sey |
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Lkwthnu
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - Apr 25 2021 : 12:49:09 AM
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How did you pick your online name?
