Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
The Gift of Time and Energy
My friend, Alokada, asked me to give this short talk at the National Order Weekend at Padmaloka in December 2006. “Time and Energy” is definitely one of my “themes” or “things” and another friend, Mokshadakini, asked me, the day before, how I felt about giving a talk on something I’ve got in a pickle [...]
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Monday, November 6th, 2006
Family Handkerchiefs
These eight white hankies – first
I placed them in a pan with bleach
and boiled them back towards the sort of
white my mother’d have approved.
Next I wrung and hung them out
so the sun could whiten, dry them
into starchy, crumpled flags. Then brought
them in – that crisp, outdoorsy smell!
At home, I’d use the ironing board
with its [...]
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Monday, November 6th, 2006
The Noble Eightfold Path
This is the unedited script of a talk which I wrote for a beginners’ course which Bahiya ran at the Bristol Buddhist Centre in September 2006
It’s been great to be given the opportunity to look again – and look further – into this really fundamental teaching of the Buddha. One of the [...]