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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   I wrote (in talking about assisted shaktipat in progress now   
   first from me to spiritually advanced individuals and then, in   
   a while, from them to some others) in the long thread   
   “local deity priority” on alt.buddha.short.fat.guy :   
      
   > current state (including the Buddha belly circles and (P) delivery)   
      
   I guess that should be a lowercase b buddha. I say circles   
   since there have been a small circle and a large circle   
   though the small circle has been more common. I also   
   have experienced belly pops on occasion which I think   
   have been tests of me (probably not by humans yet).   
      
   What’s the difference between a buddha and a bodhisattva?   
      
   Though I have undergone four periods of temporary centred   
   clarity, I won’t say I have reached awakening/enlightenment   
   until I come out of the low years into an extended period   
   of centred clarity, maybe even at the “buddha bowl” moon   
   (first quarter).   
      
   What’s the difference between a buddha and an avatar?   
   (I know that some say that the Buddha was an avatar of Vishnu.)   
      
   I claim to be a buddha/avatar/christ/messiah type, and use   
   the word type since I am not a Buddhist or Maitreyan   
   or Hindu or Jewish and am no longer Christian, but as   
   I say above, I have not yet come out of the “wilderness”   
   into awakening/enlightenment, but hope to soon.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "Rain upon the water/Makes footprints sunk in sand./Anger upon angry   
   hurt,/Take me by the hand./Take me by the heartstrings..." (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)