This piece is loosely based on my husband’s life, as a child spent in the Sydney suburb of Bondi, and as a man trying to make up for past lacunae. [...]
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 [...]
The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning [...]
written by Anne SkyvingtonSeptember 2, 2021 A metaphorical interpretation from the perspective of a believer My Thesis Perhaps what the Christian crucifixion and the Jesus story is all about in [...]
Several years ago, a young Englishwoman donned a backpack, set out for Australia and rented premises in Bondi; she’d brought the New Kadampa Tradition to Sydney from the United Kingdom. [...]
Meditating written by Anne SkyvingtonSeptember 29, 2016 What is Meditation? “It’s what happy and successful people do,” I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to [...]
written by Anne SkyvingtonDecember 30, 2022 And helped by a Jewish family he becomes a legend I wonder how many Americans know this story about Louis Armstrong’s difficult childhood. I’d [...]
