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EDITORIAL

Photo: Yeshe Dorje

“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 degree in herbal medicine from the University of Central Lancashire.  She also runs foraging courses as well as creating recipes published on her site, including Nettle Cheese, Cooking with Seaweed, Clover Crispbreads and other unusual delicacies.  In this issue we feature Monica’s  Gratitude for Plants, sharing her interest in the spontaneous occurrence of plants … “just when you need them,” following the Cherokee creation belief that “each tree, shrub and herb, down to the grasses… shall appear to help man when he calls upon me in his need.”

Gavin Haines‘ article on the efficacy of honey in the relief of colds and coughs as an alternative to over-the-counter drugs makes for interesting reading.  Many of his articles can be sourced in Positive News, “A magazine for good journalism about the things that are happening.”

Take care and wishing everyone a safe journey through the current times.

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Albert Harris, Editor.


FEATURES
IN SEARCH OF MEDICINE.  BEYOND THE CLOUDS:  Kate Roddick
THE UNIVERSAL WAY OF AVALOKITESVAR:  Brian Chung
HONEY MORE EFFECTIVE :  Gavin Haines.
HOW CAN WE HELP A DYING ANIMAL?  Rinpoches
GRATITUDE FOR THE PLANTS:  Monica Wilde

RECIPES
SPINACH PAKODA:  Indra Majapuria
MUSHROOMS:  Indra Majapuria

POETRY
CONTEMPLATIONS:  Thich Nhat Hanh
THE WAY OF THESE TIMES:  Helen Brown
TIMES OF TRIBULATION:  Ianthe Pickles
MULTIPLE MORBIDITIES:  Angus Ogilvie

VIDEO
WHERE THAT THUNDER RINGS:  Bernie Hartley
THE GOAL OF BUDDHISM:  Ron Hirsch

PHOTOGRAPHY
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS:  Yeshe Dorje

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, occurs when there is no personal and positive action about our immediate environment.

In her article, Now is the Time for Action, Monica brings to the fore the importance of individual involvement in the face of an increasing crisis in climate changes which is already inimical to the quality of life on earth, to all life.  She ends the article with the lucid reality that action is in your every waking moment as well as your dreams.

I am reminded of the shopkeepers and household residents in Indian towns and cities attentively sweeping the pavement outside their shops and houses and cleansing the air inside their rooms with smouldering pine leaves every morning before the start of their day.

Being mindful of our immediate environs is the beginning of a larger understanding of the state of our planet.

Concerning plastic in our lives, this recent article in The Guardian brings home the fact that “humans have made 8.3 billion tons of plastic since 1950” presented in a captivating illustrated format. (The Unted States of Plastic.)

In terms of the personal well-being of individuals-the internal environment of the body-Dr Miriam Maisel, a certified lifestyle physician and family practitioner, states in her webpage:

The main message of lifestyle medicine is that healthy eating along with physical activity can bring about dramatic improvements in many medical conditions, and reduce the need for long medications and even surgery.

In her article, Health Independence, Miriam looks at alternative ways of living that are not dependent on conventional medicines and treatments.

(Also see The Cancer of Climate Change.)
Albert Harris (Ed)

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FEATURES
RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE’S VISIT TO IRELAND:  Andy
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION:  Monica Wilde
HEALTH INDEPENDENCE:  Dr Miriam Maisel
INSTALLATIONS OF OUTER SPACE:   Padolski and  Basandowskaby
STORIES OF REINCARNATION:  Professor Erlendur Haraldsson
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME:  Lama Jampa Thaye
MEDITATION:  Yeshe Dorje
HOW TO FIND INNER PEACE:  Ronald Hirsch
POHA POTATOES:  Madhur Jaffrey
POETRY
MEMORIES:  W. D. Cocker
DRINK YOUR TEA:  Thich Nhat Hahn
COMPASSION: Li Po
MORNING PRACTICE:  Maeve O’Sullivan
PERSONAL STORIES
KARMA SONAM RINCHEN:  KSR
LIVING AND DYING IN PEACE:  Margaret Richardson

FICTIONAL STORIES
WAR AND PEACE:  Ianthe Pickles
TRUANCY:  KSR
VIDEO
RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE’S FAVOURITE STORY
FRISBEE GIANT:  Malcolm Sutherland

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