Author: Albert

  • LET’S DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

      Question: How does one stop making the story real? Sometimes I feel the story, my narrative is so crystalized and I can watch a pattern happen again and again and it’s frustrating to continue repeating the same hurtful patterns. I am interested in learning to keep my heart open, even though it’s scary. Dear Friend,…

  • LAZY LAMA FILM

    Renowned German filmmaker Niko von Glasow’s newest film is now available to view here!                                                                          LAZY LAMA FILM The film…

  • BULGAR WHEAT WITH SPRING ONIONS AND MUSHROOMS

    (Serves 6.) 4 tbs vegetable oil 2 spring onions, trimmed and sliced in fine half rings (including green) 6 medium-sized mushrooms, wiped with a damp cloth and sliced 1 teaspoon of salt Medium or coarse-grained bulgar wheat, measured to the 15fl oz level in a glass,  measuring jug, or weighed. Heat the oil in a heavy pot…

  • TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE

    I who am dead a thousand years,     And wrote this sweet archaic song, Send you my words for messengers     The way I shall not pass along. I care not if you bridge the seas,     Or ride secure the cruel sky, Or build consummate palaces     Of metal or of masonry. But have you wine and music…

  • Autumn Editorial

    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.                                                                 From The Road…

  • A Journey With Buddha’s Daughters.

    Buddhism developed varying traditions as it took root in different cultures around the world. In some of those cultures, the role of women in Buddhism – as nuns and as lay practitioners – has been minimised or even subsumed entirely under that of monks. Even though the Buddha himself, when asked by his student Ananda,…

  • Buddhist Humour

     

  • AUTHENTIC GENDER EQUALITY

    In ACTIVISM by Kim Roberts6 Comments I live a short drive away from what was, until recently, known as the sex-change capital of the world: Trinidad, Colorado. As more people explore the option to alter their biology, gender issues have surfaced in so many ways it’s hard to recognize certain facets of culture we used to take for…

  • How can we best prepare ourselves for death?

      That’s the same way, actually. In a way, the way you prepare others for death and the way you prepare yourself for death is more or less similar. You have to see what would work and what would not work for yourself. It’s important that as a practitioner facing death you try to prepare…

  • Sheila Atim: Tight Connection to My Heart

    Sheila Atim winner of the Olivier Award, 2018 for Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic and the Noel Coward Theatre sings Bob Dylan’s Tight Connection to My Heart.   la

  • Your Policy

    [How to let a reader know from a one-sided conversation on the phone what the person at the other end is saying.  The obvious ploy would be to have the recipient of a phone call continuously repeat what the other is saying. But this may abrade the reader with such an obvious and redundant repetitive…

  • The Heart Sutra

      A New Translation from the Chinese by Hanh Niêm with Commentary ______________________________ Prajna Paramita Hridaya – Heart of Perfected Wisdom The Bodhisattva Avelokiteshvara, Practicing the perfection of wisdom, going deep within, Was illuminated and perceived that All five skandhas are empty of intrinsic existence. Thus being at one with all things, Experiencing things directly…

  • Each Morning You Awake…

    Each morning you wake and begin your inner story about the day ahead.  Much of this story is a repetition of the thousands of stories you have spu in your life. What if you could birth a new story, completely untouched by your old stories?  Would it take you somewhere you have not been before? …

  • Tofu Sushi Bowl

      Ingredients 100g/3½oz firm tofu, drained 50g/1¾oz sushi rice 25g/1oz frozen soya beans low-calorie cooking spray 4 radishes, thinly sliced ¼ small cucumber, halved lengthways, seeds removed, cut into thin matchsticks ¼ small carrot, peeled and cut into thin matchsticks 3 spring onions, thinly shredded 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds 1 tbsp Japanese pickled ginger,…

  • Bardos

    ‘Live and let die’, a reflection on the summer camp Summer Camp 2018:  I had my first experience of the Bodhicharya summer camp this August. It was a life changing experience in many ways. The theme of the camp was ‘Bardos’, which translates to transitions. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, who I’ll refer to as Rinpoche from…

  • Remember

    Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand…

  • Autumn Leaves by Yenne Lee

    Here’s Yenne Lee with her arrangement of the Joseph Kosma standard Autumn Leaves. She’splaying a great 2004 Pepe Romero Jr. classical guitar in cedar and maple.