Category: Editorials
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AUTUMN EDITORIAL
Toronto: Autumn Sky Autumn has turned into spring. In our tiny garden at the front of the house, flowers are blooming again, the hedges are still growing and a warm wind blows through the trees in the park across the road. In this edition, there are some new contributors. Anne Katrin-Voss writes about her experience of…
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EDITORIAL
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) There is a novel method for gauging prosperity in Bhutan; the measure of wealth in a country can be assessed in the happiness of the people. In Bhutan, they have replaced road signs telling drivers to slow down or not…
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HERE COMES SUMMER
“We’re becoming addicted to the Karmapa” [Paraphrased from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s speech at the end of H H Karmapa’s first visit to Europe.] The Karmapa’s visit to Kamalashila and Berlin has been the highlight of 2014. Thanks to the efforts of all the people involved in this memorable visit, the Karmapa’s charismatic…
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SPRING HAS SPRUNG…
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring …
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SPRING EDITORIAL
Today is the first day of spring, the vernal equinox, and I came across some unlikely news in a publication, International Business Times. The column reminds the readers that this day is also the undeclared UN International Day of Happiness. There is a surprising article about this day in the paper where it rather…
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EDITORIAL
This month we have some new contributers to Many Roads. Mark Laidlaw gives a heart-felt account of his discovery of Buddhism in My Journey. Ernie Buck returns with an account of the beginning of his journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats in Journey Down. Christine Hawkridge who is the Chair of University of the Third Age has…
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NEW YEAR EDITORIAL
Shrine for losar So here we are having arrived safely in 2014 according to the western calendar. Of course, there is still the Tibetan new year to look forward to on March 3, the transition from the year of the water snake to the year of wood horse. For me, that is an exiting time…
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WINTER IS HERE
SEASONAL GREETINGS TO ALL READERS OF MANY ROADS Am I am imagining that the citiy is less busy than it usually is at this time of year? Perhaps online shopping has taken off and high street stores are now receiving fewer shoppers. I remember not that long ago people held back their purchases till the…
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RECENT ARTICLES
Hello to all the readers of Many Roads. Up here in Scotland the days are becoming colder and the nights longer. Out come the warm clothes, hats, gloves, thermals and scarves. That’s how it is in the autumnal, northern hemisphere. The scattering of leaves on the pavements adds a certain melancholic poignancy to the…
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RECENT ARTICLES
Hello dear friends and readers of Many Roads. We’ve had several interesting and thought-provoking articles posted in the past few months by new contributors. Mindfulness and Me is an honest depiction of how one can realise late in life the benefits of meditation and self-realisation by Gopal Lama; a fable about the meaning of freedom by Lama…
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Hello from Albert Harris
Dear friends and readers of Many Roads I am happy to take on the task of editing Many Roads and look forward to receiving posts from contributors. The articles and poetry published in past editions have all been welcome and I look forward to receiving writing in the less-used categories of Music and Photography as well as Fictional…
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Bye from Margaret F
Dear Friends in Bodhicharya This is my last editorial for Many Roads. I did try to give something a little different in my last attempt at an emagazine and in all the posts etc under the umbrella of Many Roads. I hope it was of some help and interest to some of you at least. …
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New Beginnings: Editorial September 2012
As promised last month, I’m very happy to be able to publish another issue of Bodhicharya’s Many Roads. With many thanks to the contributors; Albert Harris, Vicki Mc Kenna and Shelagh Gardiner who kindly share their work here. Albert tells us about his recent trip to Singapore in An Interview with Johnny Ho. Vicki, a…
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And Here we are Again….A New Beginning
Hello Dear Friends, Hoping you are all well. It has been nearly ten months since I last wrote anything for Bodhicharya’s emagazine, Many Roads. I have been ill most of this time and now am happy to report that the condition is in remission. So, for now, I enjoy life again. A number of people…
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The Last Editorial………….for now.
As I type this, I can see the golden leaves shimmering in the bright Autumn sunshine in my garden. It is a beautiful time of the year and one I’ve always loved. So, maybe it’s fitting that it’s during this season of so many changes that I’ve decided to take a break from the work…
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Editorial August 2011
As the lazy days of August gradually fade, I am very happy to send you a slightly ‘thinner’, but none the less, an entertaining issue of Many Roads. Our regular contributor, Vicki McKenna gives us some food for thought in her article, Letting go of Being Right. This is a topic close to my heart…
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Editorial- July
I am very happy to send you all the July issue of Bodhicharya’s Many Roads. There are so many great pieces this month and it is a bumper ‘poetic’ issue! We have another article from our regular contributor, Vicki McKenna. Vicki reflects on All the Time in the World and how we can change our perception…