Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 25th, 2007
THE LIMITATION OF SITTING MEDITATION
I was having a café latte with Reza in the funky Barrel coffee shop in the top end of Totnes high street, just a few minutes walk from my home. For years, I sat in the corner window seat reading beloved French philosophers, Nagarjuna, a continental novel, scribbling down a poem, people watching or having [...]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
THREE SHORT REFLECTIONS AFTER VISITING ISRAEL
1. Last month, I got back from Israel. I’ve been going there for 15 years, and twice a year for several years. Along with Stephen Fulder, Tovana (the Israeli dharma organisation) and a growing network of people dedicated to the dharma, we have been and continue to be part of a dharma journey together.
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
APPLAUSE FOR REPORTERS
I regularly watch television documentaries especially on international issues. I experience a level of interest much stronger when I have walked the earth of that country, felt its presence through my senses and listened to the voices of the people. In some places, such as Jerusalem and Nablus, the main Palestinian town of the [...]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
A CHECKLIST FOR A RELATIONSHIP
I wrote on the blog a few days ago about Naikan Therapy that asks three core questions to resolve inner issues about somebody else. Remember there is no 4th question in the Naikan approach!
I reflected on the value of this approach and came up with six questions for people in an intimate relationship. The questions [...]
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
THE PREJUDICE OF IMPARTIALITY
With CNN and Fox television, there is no pretence presumably whatsoever of impartiality.
The pro Israel/US bias, as with other areas of conflict, corrupt their television reports. I have talked with the Palestinians who had lived in the forlorn hope that the West will wake up to their traumatic situation and stop the criminal treatment that [...]
