“When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.” Deepak Chopra

In this edition of Many Roads, Filipe Valente Rocha writes about ‘the shift to a  … chemically dependent monoculture and the effect it has on the environment, as well as the traditional methods of seed production.  Filipe currently lives in The Algarve, Portugal with his family. Apologies to the author for the changes to the original French text.
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Ringu Tulku Rinpoche led the Monlam in Kamalashila, Germany.  Prayers were recited to help invoke compassion in a samsaric world.  The Monlam was followed by three days’ of teaching by Rinpoche on Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo’s text, Mahamudra Peliminary Practices:  Continuous Integration with Ground, Path and Fruition.  A few photographs from Kamalashila are published here.
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Lastly there is a recipe for Potatoes with Black Pepper.  Something to warm you as Autumn approaches.
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