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Post by Shawn on May 4, 2016 14:52:30 GMT -5
Hi All, The TAT Foundation will receive a $1000 matching donation if we raise $1000 by May 15. With just a few small donations we can meet this challenge and advance on our goal of building a retreat center. For example, just forty people donating $25 each will reach the goal. To donate, visit: tatfoundation.org/tat-home.htm . What's this all about? The TAT Foundation is raising $250,000 to find a new home on the East coast, and, as of May 2016, we are 76% of the way to the goal. We envision a semi-rural facility, close to a university town, with a meeting hall seating up to 70 participants, kitchen and bath facilities, and a room for a live-in caretaker. Additionally, the facility would have one cabin for solitary retreats. Ideally, the property would border public lands to provide a buffer of quiet and solitude, and have enough acreage to allow for additional cabins, sleeping quarters, and facilities over time. A resident teacher, week-long retreats and intensives, public events and other activities are planned. Thank you. |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2016 15:08:14 GMT -5
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Post by quinn on May 4, 2016 15:15:27 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on May 4, 2016 23:56:06 GMT -5
Normally I'm a "take my reward in heaven" kinda' guy but my impression is that this forum has an undeservedly bad reputation so I'll pharisee it up this time. 57L80339S29110005 |
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Post by Shawn on May 5, 2016 11:36:50 GMT -5
Thank you! We now have $420 raised towards the challenge. Just 24 more people donating $25 each will get us to the goal.
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Post by Shawn on May 15, 2016 18:30:07 GMT -5
FYI: We met the $1000 challenge.
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Post by quinn on May 15, 2016 19:49:01 GMT -5
FYI: We met the $1000 challenge. Great, Shawn. Thanks for letting us know. |
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Post by anja on May 20, 2016 16:59:37 GMT -5
WHY and what for would anybody would want to "retreat" anyway?
Can you answer that question, Shawn?
What's the deal?
What difference would having a place like a "retreat-center" would make and for whom and why is that even neccessary? THAT would interest me a lot, personally, as some living-in-a-big-city-hermit.
A "special" place for "special" people (peeps) with "special" needs is needed for WHOM???!
A one sentence answer would be sufficiant.
Thanks in advance.
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Post by anja on May 20, 2016 17:12:06 GMT -5
And don't get me wrong, Shawn, that was a merely rethorical question. I know the answer. But do YOU know the answer too? THAT is what is of interest for me.
Bann me anytime you wanna for asking serious questions. It's not the first time that would happen to me, as you surely know by now.
TAT-foundation? Is what exactely all about?
A one-liner would be sufficant.
Thanks in advance.
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Post by laughter on May 20, 2016 21:54:23 GMT -5
Even if I never go there knowing that there's a place within driving distance run by sane adults with an interest in this stuff would be a warm fuzzy. |
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Post by anja on May 27, 2016 18:23:32 GMT -5
Even if I never go there knowing that there's a place within driving distance run by sane adults with an interest in this stuff would be a warm fuzzy. Yeah, maybe it's fun. But I think all ashrams, or retreat-centers, how ever you wanna call that kinda thingy, are for sissys only. That's just my take on it as a big-city-shaman in disguise. |
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Post by anja on May 27, 2016 18:30:33 GMT -5
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Post by zendancer on May 29, 2016 13:21:16 GMT -5
Even if I never go there knowing that there's a place within driving distance run by sane adults with an interest in this stuff would be a warm fuzzy. Yeah, maybe it's fun. But I think all ashrams, or retreat-centers, how ever you wanna call that kinda thingy, are for sissys only. That's just my take on it as a big-city-shaman in disguise. THIS does whatever it does. Sissies, he-men, and big-city shamans exist only in imagination. The truth is beyond imagining. |
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Post by anja on Jun 5, 2016 12:37:45 GMT -5
What I'm talking about, Zendancer, is very real. You can touch it, feel it and you can show it to your friends.
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Post by zendancer on Jun 6, 2016 7:59:34 GMT -5
What I'm talking about, Anja, is neither real nor unreal, neither big nor small, neither tangible nor intangible. I call it THIS. Other people call it by other names. It simply is what it is. THIS, in the form of some people, goes to retreat centers. In the form of other people, IT doesn't. Perfect!
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