WRITING AS A SOLITARY ACT Let's face it: Writing is often a solitary business but one that is worth every drop of blood that you shed as you lock yourself [...]
MECHTHILD OF MADGEBURG: 1207-1282Of all that God has shown meI can speak just the smallest word, No more than a honeybeeTakes on his footFrom an overspilling jar BASHO JAPAN: 1644In Kyoto,Hearing the [...]
What is Meditation? "It's what happy and successful people do," I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to do it. The Dalai Lama and other [...]
uguries of Innocence To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Red Breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves & Pigeons Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
The Parable of the Twins I came across this parable at the time my daughter was about to give birth to her first son and was enchanted by it. I [...]
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 Golden Ratio Many buildings and artworks reflect the Golden Ratio: the Parthenon in Greece, and many other classical buildings in Europe. But it is not really known if it [...]
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. [...]
But not in the way I expected… I turned thirty and wanted to change. Engaging a therapist who utilized a post-Freudian type of psychoanalysis, seemed to me to ensure a [...]
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 [...]
