Category: Editorials

  • Editorial

    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,…

  • 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 “……

  • The Noble Sūtra Teaching the Eleven Perceptions, from the Words of the Buddha

    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,…

  • EDITORIAL

    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…

  • MANY ROADS FOR BODHICHARYA EDITORIAL

    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. …

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Editorial

    I am pleased to publish an extensive review by Vin Harris of Mindful Heroes-stories of journeys that changed lives. Vin states:  The book … makes the connection between the Hero’s Journey and the inner journeys of people who study and practice mindfulness. 

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Spring Editorial

    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…

  • WINTER EDITORIAL

    A guid New Year tae yin an aw, an monie may ye see. Many Roads is an electronic magazine and subscription is easy and free. Albert Harris, manyroads@bodhicharya.org FEATURES DESIDERATA:  Living and Dying in Peace PANEER WITH PEAS:  Mridsu Shailaj Thanki LAMENT FOR WILD FOOD:  Monica Wilde R.T.R ARCHIVE MEMBERSHIP:  Ringu Tulku Rinpoche POETRY BETWEEN…

  • 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,…

  • JANUARY EDITORIAL

    The mind that is learning is an innocent mind, whereas the mind that is merely acquiring knowledge is old, stagnant, corrupted by the past. An innocent mind perceives instantly, it is learning all the time without accumulating, and such a mind alone is mature.  J. Krishnamurti Welcome to 2019 and the year of the earth…

  • 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…

  • Summer Editorial

    War doesn’t determine who’s right – only who’s left.                                                               Bertrand Russell Finding peace of mind is  most important ; and in difficult times, when…

  • Editorial

    We can use metaphors to help envision interconnectedness. . . . thinking of reality as a net.  We can also see it as a fabric that has been woven through causal relationships.  Like threads that run through a piece of fabric, the actions of one person serve as causes whose effects others must experience.  In…