Category: Editorials

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…

“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…

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…

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…

Our actions are the ground on which we stand. (From The Fifth Remembrance, Thich Nhat Hanh.) Sir Nicholas Winton died in July 2015 at the age of 106. He was dubbed the “British Schindler”, having helped rescue  669 Czechoslovakian children, most of them Jewish, from an impending invasion by Germany and preventing their murder by…

You learn something every day if you pay attention. In this issue, Anne Katrin Voss has been interviewed by Michele Sisto.  Anne started her studies at the Academy of Fine Art in Dusseldorf.  Entering late into education at the age of 45, Anne pioneered Multi-cultural Constellation Work with refugees, some suffering the trauma caused by…

Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release – it’s what the trees do. Aloha Ka’ala The season’s change has brought to mind the necessity of understanding the nature of impermanence.  The trees are shedding leaves in the gales. In Canada, this time of year is rightly called ‘the fall’.  Sheltered inside the…

  May your hands always be busy, May your feet always be swift, May you have a strong foundation, When the winds of changes shift. Bob Dylan: Forever Young. Planet Waves Many Roads for Bodhicharya provides a platform for thought-provoking articles. We hope to engender an interest in many different areas of contemporary thought, current issues,…

ALL THINGS MUST PASS:  EVEN WAR. War is not the answer A Buddhist peacemaker, Thich Nhat Hanh describes his own efforts to bring succour to villagers in Vietnam suffering from the war in spite of his opposition to the position of the government.  Hanh was a pioneer of Engaged Buddhism involving his activism in both…

(Thich Nhat Hanh: 1926 – 2022) Welcome to this edition of Many Roads for Bodhicharya To start the New Year, Dónal Creedon held a week-long retreat on Zoom for more than 90 participants.  The title was Returning to Silence, an apt subject to transport us from a hectic 2021 to a new start for 2022. …