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  • March 1st 2020 St David’s Day

    Prelude to poem ‘March 1st, 2020, St David’s Day’ This poem was written last year, just before the World Pandemic 2020 exploded in the UK, during a time, when all we had to worry about was ‘differences of opinion’! That still remains, of course, and for me, my ongoing ‘fight’ is over ‘styles of gardening’…

  • Stephanie Jones

    Stephanie Jones is an active soloist and chamber musician who is currently based in Germany and studying Konzertexamen at the University of Music Franz Liszt with Prof. Thomas Müller-Pering.

  • Spring Editorial

    Welcome to the Spring edition of Many Roads. Having completed one year of pandemic lockdown and with the regeneration of nature outside the door, the atmosphere seems to have become more positive with more people on the streets and children playing in the parks.  Let’s hope that this augurs a recurrence of life as we knew…

  • Byken Matsukawa

    Personal stories are always interesting, especially when they are within living memory and their veracity hasn’t been eroded through time.  Below is a series of photographs which tells a story about David Russell’s father, Byken Matsukawa, a Japanese national interned in the UK during the second world war.  The photos are preceded by a short…

  • Why I Love Glasgow/London

    My name is Hilary Harris – since retiring from my catering business after 25 years, I have been fortunate to undertake some spectacular world travels. I have photographed some great images to capture these memorable journeys

  • Prayer of Samantabhadra

    Bodhicharya Winter Teaching 2020 – LIVE Teaching by WANGDU on NOVEMBER 26, 2020 in EVENTS, NEWS, RINGU TULKU, TEACHINGS. Prayer of Samantabhadra (Kunzang Mönlam) 14th – 21st December 2020 Daily at 2:30pm (GMT/UTC) Rinpoche has very kindly accepted our request to give a teaching on the ‘Prayer of Samantabhadra (Kunzang Mönlam)’. This direct and important text is not only an aspiration prayer, but also…

  • THE GOAL OF BUDDHISM

  • EDITORIAL

    “You are what you eat.”  In this issue there are several articles about food including two recipes from Joys of Nepalese Cooking by Indra Majapuria.  The recipes in her book are authentic, Nepalese fare:  there are sections on soups, rice, pulses, noodles and vegetables.  Multifarious meat and fish dishes are also covered. Monica Wilde has a Masters…

  • BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

    Photographs submitted for the University of the Third Age Photographic Group Edinburgh. Subject:  Black and White            

  • CONTEMPLATIONS

    Contemplations on no coming, no-going This body is not me, I am not limited by this body. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born, and I have never died. Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, Manifestations from my wondrous true mind. Since before time, I have been free.…

  • THE UNIVERSAL WAY OF AVALOKITESVAR BODHISATTVA

    AVALOKITESVAR SHRINE A Place to Pray to and Meditate on the Grace and Great Compassion of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva  The Universal Way of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva- A Public Domain   Translation of Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra Preface The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Chapter of the Lotus Sutra is perhaps one of the most efficacious Dharma Doors ever…

  • MUSHROOMS – च्याउ

    Ingredients 1 cup of mushrooms 4 teaspoons mustard or vegetable oil 1 medium onion 2 garlic cloves 2.5 cm piece of ginger 1/2 teaspoon chili (optional) 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1/2 teaspoon fenugreek seed salt to taste Process Wash the mushrooms 2 or 3 times.  Break into small pieces by hand.  Mix turmeric rubbing with the…

  • SPINACH PAKODA पालक पाकोडा

    Ingredients 2 cups of the leaves of spinach 1 cup of gram flour (besan) 2 green chillis chopped or 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder (optional) 1 large onion finely chopped 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder pinch of asafoetida (hing) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup of water or as required Oil for deep frying Process Wash and clean…

  • MULTIPLE MORBIDITIES

    Multiple morbidities: the term they use to capture all the ways that nature fashions for us how to die: The cancer didn’t get him,                                                                                            but the diabetes did; that unpredicted stroke; the virus lying dormant; and infection in the throat; Or perhaps some unattributable malaise accumulated down the years – the persistent aching emptiness of…

  • Times of Tribulation – April 1st – All Fools’ Day, 2020    

    Spring’s stance hung, chilled; grim sky surged, grey, ‘Fool’ ventured down to the Prom that day Took chosen, odd path, chanced route, least trod, Vain trampling, awry, o’er matted green sod, Clambered high bluff, breathless; traversed bleak tops, Below, vast-spreading river…above, lean lonely copse, ‘Tis “Thirty-two days syn March began”, Familiar, stark words for a…

  • IN SEARCH OF MEDICINE, BEYOND CLOUDS

    In NATURAL MEDICINE by Kate Roddick I felt on top of the world, with my letter of introduction to the Dalai Lama, in my pocket, close to my heart, we tickeled tocked, tickeled tocked, into the train station at Patankot. The mist had fallen onto the paddy fields, and plains left to right of the old sleeper…

  • HONEY MORE EFFECTIVE THAN OVER THE COUNTER MEDICINES…

    The following extract concerning the increased use of antibiotics for the treatment of colds and associated ailments is from the magazine Positive News. Honey could offer more effective treatment for some respiratory infections than prescription medicines, according to a study The pharmaceutical industry has developed a host of treatments for sore throats, blocked noses and coughs,…