Author: Albert

  • Many Roads for Bodhicharya Review

    Many Roads for Bodhicharya Review

    As this will be our last article of 2022, we have the opportunity to review some of the best articles from the past.   Enjoy. Please take care over the new year and Christmas celebrations and we wish you all a great start to 2023. Elizabeth Matis-Namgyel considers depression and how it can be a “……

  • MORNING PRACTICE

    Morning Practice (for Dónal C.) The leaves: I’m sweeping them but still they fall upon the steps and all along the path – I wonder if I’ll reach the boundary wall. The storm last night increased my brush’s haul, though for this rain they will say dhanyavaad, I’m sweeping up the leaves and still they fall. How…

  • SUMMER EDITORIAL

    Making positive choices about the environment is the theme in some magazine articles this summer.  Monica Wilde, who I consider to be an eco-warrier,  brings our attention to the reality that we can make life style choices which can have an effect on the environment and ultimately on ourselves.  The disconnect in life, she suggests,…

  • NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION

    You. Yes you! Did you know that what you do to the Earth, you do to yourself? When you nurture the planet, you look after your body. For only by nourishing yourself with food that grows in healthysoils, pollinated by insects, with clean water and the right amount of sunshine, does your body stay strong…

  • MEMORIES

      MEMORIES [LEST WE FORGET] At night when all the house is still, I sometimes take my favourite briar, And one last pipe ere bedtime fill, Then fall to dreaming by the fire. The cosy room, the easy-chair Are left a hundred leagues behind, I’m with the old battalion where The cobbled roads of Flanders…

  • HEALTH INDEPENDENCE AND RESISTANCE IN OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD

      PolItIcal upheavals are causing widespread anxiety about many issues, including health care, all over the world. Where do we go from here and what can we do on an individual basis to improve our own situation? First let me say, as a doctor, I see health care as a vital human right. I regard…

  • RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE’S FAVOURITE STORY

  • TRUANCY

    Isa knows this is not her home. Whatever the young girls with tattoos and piercings tell her, their names peppery on her tongue. “You live here now, darling. You’re safe with us.” This is not her home and she will not stay. She is a serial escapee though never got much further than the bus…

  • INSTALLATIONS OF OUTER SPACE

    To make the hypnotic artworks, Krakow-based duo Przemek Podolski and Marta Basandowskaby start by arranging the complex designs as a 3D computer model. The structures range from simple cubes to impressively complex geometric designs which they use to represent outer space. Basandowska says that she and Podolski then use a series of different knotting techniques to weave…

  • POHA POTATOES

      This is a simple, spicy Indian lunch or brunch made with rice and potatoes. Perfect as a side dish with curry, too. Ingredients 4 medium waxy potatoes (such as Charlotte or Jersey Royal) 140g/5oz thick poha rice (also called flaked rice or thick flattened rice) 3 tbsp olive oil generous pinch of ground asafoetida 1 tsp urid dal 1 tsp black mustard seeds 1…

  • KARMA SONAM RINCHEN

    I’m not at all sure how we all in the Bodhicharya Sangha developed the merit to be able to meet Rinpoche in this life – but somehow the good fortune has come to us, each in our own different way, and I think now we  just have to see how much further we can clarify…

  • BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME

    Can we love our families fully while upholding the Buddha’s teaching on non-attachment? Sometimes people ask me if there isn’t a conflict between the Mahayana instruction to see all beings as close relatives, worthy of our affection and compassion, and Buddhist teachings on non attachment. Perhaps they are thinking of Jetsun Milarepa’s words: When you…

  • MEDITATION

    Because of the complexity of various forms of meditation, the text is broken up into two main areas, although it could be broken down much further. Judeo/Christian Buddhist CHRISTIAN MEDITATION This seems to take the form of prayer in order to appreciate the revelations of god.  This can be done by concentrating on a passage in…

  • HOW TO FIND INNER PEACE

    If you are reading these words, it means that you either realize you’re not at peace and want to be, or the sound of the word drew you … it’s something you haven’t really thought about, but it resonates and you want it in your life. The universal truth is that we all suffer.  Whether rich…

  • WAR AND PEACE

    In their miniature world, cramped between wooden crevices of a make-shift dugout, the ants busy themselves with homemaking and egg laying, ensuring their lineage. “Come on lads, let’s all pull together, we can get this done today!” They carry their dainty furniture, food and precious eggs purposefully back and forth, undisturbed by the mayhem around…

  • LIVING AND DYING IN PEACE

    Living & Dying in Peace Dying in a graceful and joyful way – the practice that we need to work on. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche Our vision for this evolving website is that there will be ongoing guidance and instruction from Ringu Tulku on living a peaceful, purposeful life and how to face, embrace and engage…

  • STORIES OF REINCARNATION

    A conversation with Erlendur Haraldsson: Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. Sitting round a table at the back of a dining hall with several others, Professor Erlendur Haraldsson is explaining his research into  reincarnation and the world of the dead and dying. At the hour of death, people who are about to die…