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New Year Resolutions and Through the Year. Name your Resolution and Start to Apply Immediately. Here are around 30 resolutions this blogger made in the last three decades. Plus Tips

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2022 has begun. Readers may entertain thoughts about New Year’s Resolutions.

We embark upon a resolution, big or small, to bring about a change in our life, often centred around renunciation, reduction or giving up certain kinds of behaviour or patterns. …

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TEN YEARS AND TEN DAYS. A 528-page Memoir. Christopher Titmuss. Life for six years as a Buddhist monk. One circle of the Earth.

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I wrote a Memoir of my years overseas between 1967-1977. My mother (1920-2015) kept encouraging me to write the book. She kept the 427 letters and aerogrammes I posted home.
I promised her faithfully I would hand her three or four chapters before she died. I kept the promise. During the lockdown in 2020 and early 2021, I took the opportunity to write the other 80 chapters completing the book in Spring 2021.
The book recalls firsthand experiences includes Buddhist practices, insights and depths of teachings found in the East.

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Choices and Consequences. ‘Biography. A Game’ – a play by Max Frisch, a Swiss playright (1911 – 1991).

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Choices and Consequences

‘Biography. A Game.’

A Play by Max Frisch, a Swiss playright (1911 – 1991)

I read recently a remarkable play. Biography. A Game –  written by Max Frisch. …

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Bodh Gaya and Sarnath Update, photo links and information for January, 2017 retreats

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Bodh Gaya and Sarnath 2016 update, photo links

and information for January, 2017 retreats

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. …

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