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Drink a Glass of Water with Every Meal. Give your inner body and brain a regular shower.

I read doctors recommend drinking two or three litres of pure, distilled water every single day. Perhaps a few diehards maintain such a discipline. The rest of us folks find ourselves with modest aims. …

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Burmese Bhante, the Visionary of Bodh Gaya, died on Wednesday 6 October 2021, aged 86

Burmese Bhante, Venerable Sayadaw U Nyaneinda, Abbot of the Burmese Monastery, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India died at 7.26 am on Wednesday 6 October 2021, aged 86 in Myanmar.

Last year, he returned to Myanmar for eye surgery. Owing to the lockdown, he could not return to his beloved Bodh Gaya. He contracted Covid in Myanmar and although he appeared to recover, the virus weakened his lungs. Burmese Bhante quietly faded from this world. …

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Who Needs a DNA test when we have two family photographs?

A single mum brought me up for the first few years of my life. We lived on a small farm, Bell Farm, with 27 cows, on the remote Pennine Moor, near Middleton-in-Teasdale, County Durham in the north of England for the first two years of my life before departing for Croydon, south of London. …

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‘The Ferryman’ has taken Julian David, the much-loved Jungian analyst of Totnes, from this world. He passed away yesterday (Wednesday 1 September 2021)

Julian David, aged 89, a much loved and respected Jungian analyst and lecturer, died at his home, Luscombe Farm, Totnes, last night (Wednesday, 1st September 2021). His family were close at hand in the final days as his faculties and energy gradually faded. I regard him as one of the most beautiful human beings I had regular contact with. A truly wise and compassionate soul. …

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Obituary of Khantipalo, (1932 to 5 July 2021), a former Theravada monk, Buddhist author/scholar from the UK.

A well-respected former Theravada monk, Phra Khantipalo  originally from Norfolk, England, died aged 89 in a care home in Melbourne, Australia on 5 July 2021,

In his early 20s, he joined the British Army referred to as national conscription. In 1956, soldiers in the British, French and Israel army attacked Egypt to regain control over the Suez Canal.

During this period, Lawrence Mills (later Venerable Khantipalo), a tall, gaunt figure, read a book on Buddhism. The book changed his life. …

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