A Buddhist teacher, Cynthia Jurs of California and New Mexico, embarked on a worldwide mission to plant small Earth Filled Vessels (EFVs), filled with earth and herbal plants to support healing in the world. Her pilgrimage began with a trek to visit Charol Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama, aged more than 100 years, living in a remote region of Nepal.
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A team have been working hard, week after week, to create a major online gathering/festival for all of us who recognise that personal and global transformation go together. …
In 1999, the two authors of Prayers for a Thousand Years invited me to contribute a piece to their book. It is now 2021. Plenty of countries say their young people come of age at 21.
Writers worldwide wrote prayers, gave blessings, comments, wrote stories and gave poetic utterances. …
This is ‘2021.’ Ah, 21 years since the start of the New Millennium. Are we coming of age?Read More »
Edward Conze (1904-1979) ranks among the much loved commentators/translators in the Buddhist tradition. Although born in London, Conze came from a German family with their home in Langenberg, Germany. In the 1930s, he wrote The Principle of Contradiction, a Marxist inspired text on dialetical materialism. A fierce critic of Fascism, he found himself harassed for his views. In 1933, the Nazis burnt his books in Berlin among thousands of other books, as they were deemed “unGerman.” …
I intend to publish a small book (around 80 pages) in February 2021 on the first year of the global pandemic.
I wish to encourage readers to engage in reflection/research and find ways to express your concern.
The book includes some of my blogs on Coronavirus in recent months. My concerns include: …
