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JANUARY 2025 EDITORIAL.
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.– Dalai Lama Dear Readers, Wishing you all a Happy New Year and hope you are well and looking forward to 2025. What better way to start the new year than by resolving to discard negative thoughts replacing them with a positive and compassionate approach to our daily challenges.…
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GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES: हरियो पातदार तरकारी
For this dish various leafy vegetables are fried in clarified butter (ghiu) or oil in their own juice. The heat is raised at the end of cooking to impregnate the aroma and taste of the various spices. INGREDIENTS. 2 cups of green leafy vegetables. Cut into pieces at random. 2 Tablespoons oil. 1/2 tablespoon parsley…
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Photography
fffffC The following photos have been taken by Asher Avivi. Click on each photo to view in high definition. …
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New Year Message from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
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Online Bookshop
Skip to content Welcome to our online book shop Below are all our books which are available to purchase for customers based in the EU and UK. Customers based in the USA will find most of our book catalogue for sale here on the Bodhicharya North America website. Customers in the rest of the world will…
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To Feed or Not to Feed the Birds in Cold Weather
It’s an age-old question — to feed or not to feed birds in fall and winter. Some people believe that feeding wild birds can cause more harm than good, like preventing timely migrations, or causing birds to depend on feeders rather than foraging food. The truth is these are myths and feeding birds is beneficial…
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SHOVELING SNOW WITH BUDDHA
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, tossing the dry snow over a mountain of his bare, round shoulder, his hair tied in a knot, a model of concentration. Sitting is more his speed, if that is the word for what…
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MONICA KAKKAR: HAIKU
01 solo in spring peace— the Buddhā Shākyamuni brims totality ***** 02 ocean of oneness buoys a myriad lanterns— vista on Vesak ***** 03 follow his footsteps faraway from the rat race . . . daybreak in Deer Park ***** NOTES 01 All spring season word, kigo 季語: spring peace, nodoka 長閑 *Nodoka has long…
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OCTOBER NEWSLETTER.
I last met Maggy in her ground floor flat in Langholm. I visited with the Italian nun, Ani Dolkar. On the way to her house, we stopped off and bought some ice-cream cones. According to her brother, Timothy Waugh, Maggie had a sweet tooth and loved chocolate. When I thanked her for her work at…
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MAGGY JONES: 31/05/41 ~ 28/09/24
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great…
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SEPTEMBER EDITORIAL: ALBERT HARRIS
“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…
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POTATOES WITH BLACK PEPPER: काली मिर्च संग आलु
COOKING TIME: 15 minutes 6 medium potatoes 1/4 teaspoon crushed chilies 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup of water 2 – 3 tablespoons of lemon juice Baghaar (बघार: the method of tempering whole spices in hot fat, like olive oil or ghee allowing them to bloom, infusing their flavors into the fat…
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PHOTOS FROM KAMALASHILA: MONLAM 2024
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THE COST OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: Filipe Valente Rocha
Nearly 50 years ago I drove through France where I experienced idyllic rustic evenings and a blue sky above the horizon. The agronomic engineer driving me looked with concern at the size and strength of the stems of wheat: “Look! By this time the wheat should be bigger and, above all, stronger. We will…
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Editorial: Spring
Included in this issue of Many Roads for Bodhicharya is an account of Maggy Jones’ tragic accident and her consideration of the merit of donating parts of her body after death. This is surely an ethical question that must be faced while alive. In the context of Buddhist beliefs, there may not be an answer to the…
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April Editorial
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. -Martin Luther King Jr. In this issue of Many Roads for Bodhicharya, Annie Dibble has written about her experience at the inception of Akong Rinpoche’s Back to Beginnings psychotherapeutic approach to “therapy” (the closest translation of the…