Nine Favourite Poets and Poems
Language can struggle to communicate the Inexpressible. Perhaps it is only through beautiful and illuminating poetry that language reaches its zenith. In that respect, a profound poem brings us all closer to the Truth of things than any other form of language. A sublime poem ‘speaks’ to us of the realm that is beyond the words and beyond the constructed. I believe we cannot live meaningful lives without poetry. …
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for weekly Dharma teachings online.
The Dangers of Selfie Mindfulness
Worldwide Insight, an online network, is a Dharma group that you can join from anywhere in the world.
Each Saturday and Sunday, Insight Meditation teachers offer meditation instruction, teachings, and live Q&A on video. …
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We held our 42nd annual Dharma retreat in India on mindfulness, insight meditation (vipassana) and liberation in India in late February. 2016.
Indian newspapers had been reporting a decline of around 5% tourists per year (outside Goa) for several years in India. For example, British tourists and travel agents were disgruntled with the £98.00 visa charge (the British government charge even more for Indian citizens to secure a tourist visa for the UK), plus sending in the passport, photo and visa forms to the Indian High Commission. One small error or oversight in the form could result in delays in securing the visa. …
Bodh Gaya and Sarnath Update, photo links and information for January, 2017 retreatsRead More »
My Invite to Google Wisdom 2.0 Conference,
Tel Aviv.
Or was it Tel Avoidance?
Google Inc, the major search engine, kindly invited me to speak at their Wisdom 2.0 international conference in Tel Aviv, Israel in early February (2016) and then Google went silent. …
The violence in the Middle East and the ongoing refugee wave, with displaced people outpouring from Syria and other Arab countries, is a strong call to create Mindfulness meditations in Arabic. …
