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General Buddhism

How Blessed!

….. my two old boy, sitting on my lap, clasped to me with his little hug, whilst I gently chant and meditate. Moments before, he was mid-tantrum, screaming and kicking … lost in his pain. How beautiful to share those precious moments with him, 5 minutes together, with peace in our hearts. …. how beautifully […]

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Whirling Dervishes painting by Shafique Farooq
Mahamudra

My Identity is Portable

I was re-reading one of my favourite blogs this morning – Willow’s ‘Life as a Dervish‘ (blog no longer available). Her blog resonates really strongly, I guess because I’ve also lived abroad for many years in a totally different culture from the one that I was born into. And for me, that experience was just

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Suffering
Mahayana

The Compassion Gap

The last few days (whilst ill) I’ve been reflecting on how painful it is watching other people suffer. And how hard it is to help them to see the causes of their suffering. So often when we suffer we can see what is going on, where the attachment is, where the resistance to how things

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Machig Labdron
Vajrayana

Echoes Beyond Time

I was reflecting this morning on how certain things seem to reach out to me from beyond time and space. They are so deep, so closely connected to me, indeed, they seem to be me in a sense, in the sense that I cannot separate or distinguish between them and me. For example, some dharma

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Patience painting by Gaïdg
Mahamudra

Patience

I will wait. Waiting in the face of the unpleasant, the difficult, the challenging. Waiting in the face of uncertainty, confusion and disorientation. Patience – bearing with that which is hard to bear. Allowing things to be, however they are. Not trying to grasp it and force it to be other. Allowing a young plant

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Hermann Hesse
General Buddhism

What Would I Do?

That’s what I would do …. I would wait. One of my strongest memories of Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha, is of a part where the character Siddhartha is asked what can he do … what skills does he have. And Siddhartha’s reply was: I can fast, I can think, and I can wait. SiddharthaHermann Hesse

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Meredith
Other

Graceful Presence

After reading Meridith’s gracious comments on my blog, I ‘discovered’ hers …. Today, with my friend’s words in my heart, I felt very calm, and centered. My interactions seem to bloom from a spiritual center today – full of warm and radiant light. I opened my heart with each person I came into contact with.

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