Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Inquiry over a Cafe Latte
I make a daily yatra (pilgrimage) to the Barrel coffee shop in Totnes High Street, five minutes walk from my home here in south Devon I sit there and reflect, write, read, meet with friends, people watch as well as have a café latte. Last week, I gave a dharma talk with question and answers [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
A Heart’s Capital Investment in Burma
A couple of years ago, I had the privilege of joining Hal Nathan (from Inverness in the Bay area of San Francisco) on a motorcycle venture from a small town in the far north of Thailand to enter Burma. We travelled on the back of two motorbikes and made our way into a Burmese refugee [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
God is Dead. Darwinism is God
It seems to me that all institutional explanations, no mater how well reasoned out and no matter how many subscribe to the view, have their shadows. Heavy shadows. Darwinism is no exception even as scientists claim an ongoing pursuit of truth. It would be healthy to take seriously the wise counsel of the Buddha who [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Business as Usual in Burma
When Cyclone Nargis struck the Irrawaddy Delta in Burma leaving more than 130,000 dead and two million homeless, we knew the response of the rulers of Burma – “business as usual.” Nations around the world, aid agencies, NGO organisations and countless individuals were ready to act. We were naïve if we thought the Burmese rulers [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Who Wrote the Poem?
I have been putting together the poems I have written over the past decade or so. There are probably around 130 – 160 of them on a variety of themes familiar to most poets, as well as daily life. Love, impermanence, suffering, time, reality, death, mystery, truth.
