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Mahalo!
Tom and the folks at Aloha Sangha
Hi, my name is Abigail Coggins.
I signed up for your newsletter, and I’m curious to know what morning weekend sessions you have at this practice, including Monday & Wednesday evening sessions that won’t be an issue for me & my parents?
I’m hoping morning weekend sessions could work well that will help improve my communication skills, and mental health. Thank you.
I am pleased to be Anne Petrie’s neighbor here in WA. She spoke warmly of the newsletter.
Hi John. Thanks so much for your contacting me. Anne is a good friend from her time here in Hawaii. It’s nice to meet you, John. I see you already signed up for the weekly newsletter. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via email or through the contact page here-> https://www.alohasangha.com/contact-me/. Take care.
Thank you so much for these beautiful newsletters. A friend of mine in our Sangha in Colorado forwarded a few of your newsletters to me. They speak directly to my heart. Thank you!
Thanks so much for your comment- which am just seeing now..by any chance is your sangha the Cañon Sangha? I have had the pleasure of some email correspondence with this sangha. It just shows how connected we all are! Take care…
Mahalo❣️
Thank you very much for the newsletter!
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You are so welcome Deb. Glad to have you as a member!
I am very excited to say I have started my search and path to enlightenment and I hope that I can grow with the help of the community.
Aloha!
Thank you.
I also miss attending your Wednesday gatherings that center me, but until the children’s track season finishes, I’m not able to be there physically. Please know I am present in spirit, Tom.
Blessing to you and your amazing family.
love, love, love,
allison
Hi dear Allison. I was touched to read your words…some of them even trickled out of me as I finished up that last post..about our daily lives..Yes, we feel your spirit and are happy you are in our lives. Take care, Tom
Hello dear family,
I miss those evenings, and on my return to Oahu in March, I will see, be, in light with you and old friends again.
Deep gratitude for all you continue to give to us, Lyra Heddy
Hi Lyra. I missed your Presence, which has always been very inspiring to me, but which is never really gone. I look forward to seeing you sometime. My deep appreciation for your untiring commitment to Truth in her many forms.
Hi Tom! I can’t wait to continue the path here. Wherever you be, I be.
You’re like the Dharma, the place to always keeping coming back to.
TGAB. (Thank Gosh for Alternative Buddhism)
Love and aloha, a fellow acronym lover,
Daria
Thanks so much Daria for your incerdible enthusiam, dedication to the Path, and support of what we do in Aloha Sangha over these many years. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your take on things..I always find your perspectives to be stimulating and original. Thanks so much, Daria.
Dear Tom,
I truly miss attending your Wednesday sessions, but I no longer live in Manoa and am at an age where I have difficulty driving at night.
Perhaps when daylight extends to 7:30 pm I will be able to attend your inspiring sessions once again.
Best of Wishes to You and the Family,
Mahalo,
Ruth
Hi Ruth,
Thank you so much for participating! I have very warm memories of the time spent with you at our home.
Wishing you all the best…
Tom
Hi Tom: Nice to hear from you again after about a year absence. I am glad you have a new website. Are you still offering meditations in Honolulu?
I have been living on Maui for six years now and am in Lahaina. We have thousands of whales here now and the energy is wonderful.
I would like to see you again and if I come back to Honolulu I will contact you.
I am just being in awareness nothing to do. I Am fully retired and its great. How is your family?
Aloha, love and light
STEVE
808 276 9496
SteveLanzo3@gmail.com
Hi Steve- great to hear from you. Life sounds amazing for you there on Maui. Yes, we still have our group get-togethers in Honolulu, on the first and third Wednesdays 6 to 7:30 PM. Let me know if you are ever in town and I’ll email you our address..will eventually make a page on this site about those. Sounds great, just living in awareness with nothing to do…working on that too! Take care.
Tom, I wholeheartedly appreciate the commonsense, down to earth approach — a lived buddhism, a lived spirituality whatever the stripes, whether Christian, Buddhism or otherwise will always resonate with me, rather than a neck up approach. Recall in a lecture with a visiting buddhist teacher, something that struck me…to make the “dharma your best friend.” I really like that. Opens up my mind and heart. aloha my friend. Thanks for creating ripples.
Yes, and thanks, and this from someone who walks the talk — you, that is!
Thanks Tom…you da man. Hope you and the Fam are well. See you in March.
Aloha from Future Light Orphanage, Cambodia,
Rob
Thanks so Much Rob. Your support over the years means a lot to me.