Category: Editorials
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SEPTEMBER EDITORIAL: ALBERT HARRIS
“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…
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Editorial: Spring
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…
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April Editorial
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…
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Editorial: January 2024
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…
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November Editorial
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…
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Autumn Editorial
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…
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Editorial
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,…
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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 “……
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The Noble Sūtra Teaching the Eleven Perceptions, from the Words of the Buddha
Today we have a very relevant and wise offering from Tsering Paldron. of the Eleven Perceptions from the words of the Buddha Tsering says about her offering of the Eleven Perceptions below, “I feel that this teaching is absolutely crucial – so simple and yet so profound on how to die with grace and wisdom,…
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EDITORIAL
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…
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MANY ROADS FOR BODHICHARYA EDITORIAL
(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. …
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Meeting with Jack Niland
Our latest article is an account by Yumma Mudra of her meeting with Jack Niland and the profound effect it had on her life. Her journey takes her from the streets of Paris in 1977, the influence of Trungpa Rinpoche and her establishment of the Danza Duende Network. She speaks of her revelation: “As I…
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Autumn Editorial
Now that the Autumn equinox has passed, we are experiencing the darker afternoons and the late rising of the sun in the northern hemisphere. Ianthe Pickles has brought us her recent memories of summer with her personal take on Summer Days on the Allotment: a mindful and relaxing observation of the animals, plants and the drama of…
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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…
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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…
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Spring Editorial
Life holds but one commonplace mystery … time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. (From Momo, Michael Ende, Puffin Books, later made into the film … The Never…