Category: Mythos
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Pandora’s Box
It is striking how ancient myths link up with modern-day thought and religious ideas. For the ancient Greeks, Pandora represented the first woman, part of a creationist myth, comparable to Eve in the creation myth of Abrahamic religions.
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Ave Maria
Ave Maria was one of my mother’s favourite songs. Although she’d been brought up in a Catholic school and had an Irish Catholic father, she was not religious. However, she had a good voice — a soprano’s voice. And she was capable of dissolving into tears when she heard a certain song. One of these…
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Buddhism for Westerners
In 2008 I attended a Convention in Singapore for followers of the New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism, introduced to the West by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1977. He now resides at the mother centre in the UK. These festivals are annual events, and I was a novice, trying to understand in more depth what this…