Books, Photos and Music

I received from my daughter for Christmas 2010 a Kindle that enables me to download as many as 3000 books. It has proved an invaluable resource. I have downloaded the Middle Length Discourses and Connected Discourses of the Buddha into the Kindle, plus other books and PDF files that prove very supportive for my travels as a Dharma teacher. …

E-books and the shrinking number of printed booksRead More »

In a blog a couple of weeks ago, I asked Facebook Friends for recommendations for books that were written in the first person, reflected a travel memoir or carried a depth and the poetic. I wrote that I planned to read some of the books to get into the flow of writing a memoir of 10 years in the East.  I mentioned some books that I had selected from my small library of books here at home to re-read. Title of these books were: …

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Dear Facebook Friends

Can you help? I would appreciate it if you kindly recommend to me a certain type of book to read, either fiction or non-fiction. Let me give you the background so that you get the picture. …

Dear Facebook Friends, Can you recommend a book?Read More »

Our attention turns back 10 years to 9/11, I have just written about this on my last blog along with a polemic on 9/11 in the form of a poem.  On the blog before that,  I wrote about Nadamo, a pillar of support for the Sangha who died unexpectedly on September 2, 2011. …

In times of sadness, we need To uplift the spirit.Read More »

With three beloved friends,  I sat in the intimate environment of the National Theatre in London last Saturday night to watch one of Anton Chekhov’s great plays, The Cherry Orchard – the story of Mrs Ranevsky and Anya, her daughter, struggle to come to terms with the impending loss of their family estate owing to family debts. …

An Anton Chekhov play – nothing much has changed in 100 yearsRead More »