A New Year’s Resolution? Four Questions
Dear Readers,
I am writing a chapter on love and mindfulness.
I include four important questions in the chapter. …
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Dear Buddhist Commentators and Critics, First, please read mindfully the Buddha’s 10,000 discourses
Years ago, I recall writing an article comparing the Buddha’s teachings on becoming (bhava) and Darwin’s teachings on evolution.
I wrote a paragraph or two comparing Darwin’s ‘random selection of species’ and the Buddha’s teachings on dependent arising. …
Silence. Eight kinds of silence. 12 kinds of Noble Silence
There is silence and there is Noble Silence.
We pay respect to a Noble Silence, not of words, not of constructions of the mind and profoundly knowable.
We might imagine silence consists of a single element, which remains much the same. Like everything else, silence reveals itself according to the inner-circumstances. We can experience silence in a variety of ways. …
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Darkness. A Poem by Lord Byron. Written in 1818. A poem for the foreboding we might sense.
In his own dark period, Lord Byron, the adventurous English romantic poet, wrote Darkness about the violence of men, war and the end of the world.
Byron left England, travelled to Switzerland where he wrote the poem in 1818 with its despairing undertones about the state of humanity. He spent a nomadic and flamboyant life in continental Europe, especially in Mediterranean countries. He expressed his social/political concerns. He had a range of lovers both on the continent and in Britain. …
I HEAR YOUR VOICE. A Poem for those facing difficulties in their relationship
I HEAR YOUR VOICE
I hear your trumpet call on grassy slope,
you utter messages of loss of hope,
and blow up your issues to break the ties,
thus follows swollen red in burning eyes.
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