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  • When No Place Feels Like Home

    REAL PEACE IS POSSIBLE – WHEN WE ALLOW EACH OTHER ROOM TO BE THE BEST WE CAN WHEN NO PLACE FEELS LIKE HOME In SACRED WORLD by Cristina Luhmann11/24/2017Leave a Comment Since I began this life of a modern nomad, one of the things in time you start to get used to, is the ability to detach…

  • Through the Gateway of the Senses

    When we cleanse our perceptions of grasping and attachment, we experience a universe that is infinite, awakened, and full of delight. Francesca Fremantle on sight, sound, touch, and other miracles. David Gabriel Fischer William Blake famously wrote: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite, for man…

  • The Emptiness of Curtains:   Some reflections in retreat.

    We need to make a practical decision – where to sit Donal our facilitator. The choice is limited to beside a door or in front of a window on the north side of the room: and we choose the latter.  Then, another decision – should the curtains behind him be open or closed?  These are…

  • Chilli Haw Ketchup

    October 19, 2017  by Monica Wilde This is one helluva ketchup meets brown sauce baby. There is nothing like Chilli Haw Ketchup to put some fire in the belly this winter. It’s got an amazing taste, sweet and sour, peppery, tangy, umami. I remember Chinese haw flakes from when I was a child. This is that…

  • The Benefits of Saving Lives by Chatral Rinpoche

      I bow down before the Lama, Buddha Amitāyus, And the bodhisattvas in training. I shall now in brief describe the benefits Of freeing animals and ransoming their lives. To save animals from slaughter or any mortal danger, With entirely pure motivation and conduct, Is without doubt a practice to be taken up By all…

  • Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

    Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche Vin Harris talks about the life of a remarkable man     I knew Akong Rinpoche as a friend and teacher for about forty years. Between 1978 and 1988, the Samye Ling community under his leadership built the first authentic Tibetan Buddhist temple in the West; it is named after Samye…

  • A Rabbi on Holy Isle

    RABBI ADAM KLIGFELD | PUBLISHED AUG 21, 2017 | OPINION I’m a rabbi. I have experienced hundreds of Shabbat celebrations with Jewish communities of all sorts, in synagogue,  at camp, as part of youth groups, leading youth groups, with my family.  So how did it come to be that the most unexpectedly joyful, meaningful and deeply spiritual one I…

  • SATURDAY MORNING

    On Saturday morning I was on the coach early to get to Brighton in time to hear Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche teach on Santideva’s 9th chapter. It was just after 6am. I pulled out my new dharma book The 6 Perfections by Dale Wright (an excellent book) and tried to read the section on tolerance. It…

  • HELLO FROM GOA

      Hello from Goa, land of blue skies, sunshine and palm trees swaying in the balmy breeze. But lest you think that Liz and I are living the languid life of lotus eaters (okay, occasionally…) we are of course as trumped and brexited as the rest of you – but in true Indian style. Luckily…

  • PEAS AND PANIR CURRY केराउको र पनिरको करी

    Ingredients 2 cups Panir (tofu) cubes 2 cups peas 4 tomatoes (medium) chopped 2 onions finely chopped 2.5 cm ginger piece 2 cloves garlic ½ teaspoon turmeric powder ½ teaspoon chilli powder (optional) 1 teaspoon cumin powder 2 cardamoms (black) ailaichi 2 bay leaves 1 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons oil/ghui 2 cups of water Coriander…

  • MINT CHUTNEY – पुदिना को अचार

    Mint leaves are not used for making chutney in Kathmandu Valley where they grow wild, but they are generally used in the Terai region of Nepal. Ingredients 1 cup of green mint leaves 2 small garlic cloves 1/4 teaspoonful of chili powder or 1/2 green chili 1 teaspoonful of salt 2 tablespoons of mustard oil 1/2 teaspoonful…

  • THE RINGU TULKU ARCHIVE

      View this email in your browser Launching The Ringu Tulku Archive By wangdu on Aug 29, 2017 05:13 pm Dear Friends, It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of The Ringu Tulku Archive. This website will become a repository for all of the teachings given by Venerable Ringu Tulku Rinpoche that have…

  • LIVING AND DYING IN PEACE

    I think most of the time in the East, like in Tibet or Himalayan region, when you ask somebody: “Why do you practise Dharma?” They would most probably say: “I am preparing for my death” or “I’m preparing for my next life.” Because for most of the people there they kind of feel that this…

  • REACHING OUT TO ANIMALS AND ALL CONSCIOUS LIFE

     In ANIMALS by Lyse Lauren08/07/20170 Comments Reaching out to animals and all sentient, how would this change our world? If everyone understood that all beings, whether animal, insect, bird, plant or even mineral, are sentient and therefore conscious, how would this change the way we interact with them? If we understood and began to appreciate all living beings as sacred and intelligent, what impact would this have…

  • SUMMER CAMP PORTUGAL 2017

    Casa da Torre near Vila Verde Using the deity as meditation practice, in particular White Tara, was the topic for this years summer camp held for the 6th time in northern Portugal. The venue was once again Casa da Torre near Vila Verde, and the delightful Portuguese sangha were as welcoming as ever. It is always…

  • JOURNEY TO ASSAM: GUWAHATI PART 2

    Sign in Haflong, Guwahati There’s something wonderfully hedonistic about an alarm that goes off at 5am and you lie in bed for another hour in that half dream-like state.  This is India; and lateness is a fine art that requires a last minute scrabbling for the prize – a seat on the bus or train;…

  • JOURNEY TO ASSAM: PART 1

      Day dawns.  Early morning standing in the doorway of the little courtyard of Shinji Butt. Outside, pigs are grunting about in the mud.  A little boy squats and defecates while a multi-teated sow waits behind for him to finish.  A goat, wearing a yellow sweater, its front legs inserted into the arms, munches grass…