Archive for January, 2007
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Urban Retreat – Finished!
So now it’s Sunday and we finished our Urban Retreat yesterday, the five of us. We meditated together, discussed our week, explored making precepts and carried out a final ritual together when we made offerings of our intentions going forward from the retreat.
There were a couple more readings I wanted to add to this blog [...]
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Urban Retreat – and now it’s Friday!
The week has been going very quickly… albeit punctuated by lovely things. We did our last early morning meditation at the Buddhist Centre this morning, chanting the Refuges & Precepts and hearing the reading about the Buddha from the translation of the Ti Ratana Vandana. Yesterday we had one of Manjusvara’s poems (”Ghazal [...]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Urban Retreat – Tuesday Already!
A hasty blog before scooting off with Sal for our weekly study group at Jvalamalini’s. Well, we’ve had two early morning sits so far… the morning has felt very early (esp today when I overslept, and although staying nearby had to rush down the hill and round the corner!) but it’s been lovely to [...]
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Urban Retreat Begins – the first 24 hours!
Well, we began! Chittamani, Pranjamati, Debbie, Hannah and Satyalila spent Saturday exploring what it is to be on retreat and exploring what we’re each going to do this week in order to manifest “retreatness” in ourlives. We looked at “The Five Forces” (The Force of Motivation, The Force of Familiarisation, The Force of [...]
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
Urban Retreat in Bristol 20-27 January 2007
First Installment
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Branded
Slumberdown Quilt
99 Tea
Mc Vities Rich Tea Biscuits
Hovis
Anchor Butter
Robinson’s Marmalade
Marmite
Camay Soap (or was it Lux?)
(Steradent on the shelf)
Sure
Clarks Shoes
M & S Knickers
(Persil Washing Powder)
Kleenex Tissues
Adidas Bag
Peter Storm Kagoul.
Roberts Radio
(12.00 News)
Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pud
99 Tea
Marmite Doorstep
99 Tea
(Newsround,
Blue Peter,
Crossroads,
6 0 Clock News)
99 Tea
(Emmerdale Farm,
Coronation Street,
World in Action,
Panorama,
9 O Clock News)
Nescafe
Mc Vities Ginger Nuts
(The Sweeney,
News at Ten)
99 [...]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Full Moon Spoon
Jostled in a mug with other spoons,
This one – of hall-marked silver – came to hand.
I felt the fine-boned curves,
Its crazed bowl, bright with years of use,
The bottom flat, the edges thin as sharpened knives.
It was delicate as the form of a tiny bird.
Tonight, as I sat chanting,
I brought my palms together, cupped,
My bent thumbs [...]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Diamonds, Pearls and Constance Spry
All the wet diamonds of Wales,
slung like light along the hedgerows.
Plaited rivulets of water
glossing down the road,
they splay out, spread and twisted
by twig and mud and lichen.
The Constance Spry arrangement
in a fallen, rotting log:
green moss and fern
and brownshine fallen leaf.
Wet chestnut leaf-mold
rotting by the road
And strings of pearls,
of fairy lights
hanging from bare twigs, bright
against the [...]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
What is Lila?
Amused to find this in the “Wordplay” bit of the Guardian yesterday:
Wordpool
In each case find the correct definition:
LILA
a) Middle Eastern hammock
b) cosmic Dance of the Supreme Spirit
c) lilo for ladies
d) liqueur made from barley
I rather like “lilo for ladies….”
Thank you Ananda (and Vijayasri, without whose crossword-enthusiasm I’d never have been looking at that page anyway!)