Welcome!

Hey guys. I was active on KFD for a long time from fairly early on. Hopefully some of you remember me

Anyhoo, I don't tend to post much, but I hope to contribute somewhat here.

At least I won't have that lurkers guilt no more

All the best,
Jayson

Hi Jayson, good to see you here.

Will you be changing your avatar here every day like you do with your photo on Facebook?

Lol - probably not.

Would you like me to?

Hey Jayson, glad to see you here!

MuMuMuMuWu!

Hi Jayson, I'm remembering the old KFD chats with Villum.

LOL Nadav - RESPECK!

Eric - good old times indeed.

Good to see you here! It's like old times. Or new ones. Whatever.

Great to see you, Jayson!

Hi everyone, I wanted to introduce myself... My name is Eric, I grew up in an evangelical Christian family and was raised in the church. Along the way (quite by accident) I developed a contemplative prayer practice. I had some interesting experiences while I was in college that evangelicals would never admit to having and definitely wouldn’t talk about. In retrospect I’m pretty sure I passed the A&P during this time though I didn’t know it then. All of this along with a growing dissatisfaction with Christianity prompted me to look at other options for contemplative practice. After stumbling around trying all sorts of things I finally started a daily Vipassana meditation practice using primarily Mahasi style noting about 3 years ago. After some time of feeling like I wasn’t making much progress I got in contact with a teacher about a year and a half ago and things have progressed very quickly since this. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone and contributing to the forums.

A big hello to the many new faces. Nice to have new voices in the mix.

Hi Eric. Welcome.

Hi Eric. Good to have you here.

Welcome Eric!

Hi Eric, welcome!

~ ~ ~ Hello Everybody ~ ~ ~
My name is Tomer. I'm 24.5 years old. I live in Petah Tikva, Israel (the sunglasses are because it's a sunny place... ) . I've spent the last 20 months on self-retreat In my mother's home doing anything from 0 to 10 hours of formal sitting meditation per day so naturally I have a lot to share and discuss. I'm really excited to be here, and I'm also feeling a little timid . I hope to have a very meaningful time here. I'll see you all around.

Hi, Tomer. Welcome.

I'm curious to hear more about your self-retreat.

Welcome Tomer!

Hello!

Welcome!

Hi all,
I'm 35, married, we've got a 1-year old daughter, I'm from France.
I was raised in a practicing Catholic family, I stopped praticing in my mid-20's and then lost faith.
The first books about buddhism I read were from jesuits sitting in Japan (Lasalle, Johnston, Kadowaki), in university, and since then I've regularly tried to establish a regular pratice, with no success so far, even after the motivational boost I got from MCTB a few years ago, and lurking on-and-off in pragmatic dharma fora. I've probably had an A&P event in summer 2012.
Let's see where all this leads to!

Glad to have you here, Opera.

Welcome!