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MEDITATION FOR WRITING

Anne Skyvington — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:27:29 +0000

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Spiritual Poetry Through the Ages

Anne Skyvington — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:23:26 +0000

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Finding peace … going deeper … meditating

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:01:20 +0000

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 Tibetan Buddhists believe that happiness is the actual goal of most people on earth. But we in the West are brought up with the idea […]

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Mystical poems that I have loved…

Anne Skyvington — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:53:59 +0000

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.

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The Parable of the Twins

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:25:44 +0000

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 had studied “The Republic” by Plato at Armidale Teachers’ College, and had learnt about a similar metaphor, that of The Cave, included in The Republic. […]

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Buddhism for Westerners

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:56:35 +0000

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 […]

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The Golden Ratio in Art and Architecture

Anne Skyvington — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:05:00 +0000

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 was designed that way. Some artists and architects believe the Golden Ratio makes the most pleasing and beautiful shapes. There is a mathematical ratio commonly […]

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The New Kadampa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism

Anne Skyvington — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:43:00 +0000

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. The beautiful Manjushri Temple is in the Conishead Priory near the Lakes District. This temple was constructed by the faithful from the ruins of an […]

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My Struggle Against Depression Leads to Healing

Anne Skyvington — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 05:33:30 +0000

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 cure for low self-esteem and depression. True, this pragmatic change did occur, over a decade or so, along with something else quite surprising, even shocking […]

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Have You Ever Experienced The “Numen”?

Anne Skyvington — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 03:03:27 +0000

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 below. The terms were popularized by the German theologian Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book Das Heilige, which appeared in English as The […]

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