{"id":8197,"date":"2024-03-29T21:43:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2024-03-31T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T10:41:45","slug":"april-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/april-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"April Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.<br \/>\nHate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. -Martin Luther King Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366\">In this issue of\u00a0<em>Many Roads for Bodhicharya<\/em>, Annie Dibble has written about her experience at the inception of Akong Rinpoche&#8217;s <em>Back to Beginnings\u00a0<\/em>psychotherapeutic approach to &#8220;therapy&#8221; (the closest translation of the Tibetan word &#8220;<em>sowa&#8221;).\u00a0 <\/em>Annie&#8217;s involvement with the development of the programme brought her into contact with Lorna Watson and Bill Trotter who were to establish a recording studio to preserve teachings at Samye Ling.\u00a0 Bill Trotter joined in 1989 and\u00a0 worked in partnership with Lorna Watson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366\">Annie&#8217;s account of the development of the programme and the contribution made by Lorna Watson and Bill Trotter makes for fascinating reading.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/i-first-met-lorna-watson-at-johnstone-house-in-the-old-shrine-room-of-samye-ling-monastery-in-eskdalemiur-southern-scotland-it-was-1987-and-akong-rinpoche-was-beginning-to-formalise-his-tara-rokpa\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-8201 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/29213227\/Snow-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snow &amp; Rumours Of Snow<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #003366\">Timo A<\/span><span style=\"color: #003366\">nter<\/span><span style=\"color: #003366\">o Raunela is a Finnish expat living and working on Holy Isle off the coast of Arran on the West coast of Scotland.\u00a0 Almost seven years in the making,<\/span><em style=\"color: #003366\">\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Snow and Rumours of Snow<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #003366\"> draws its inspirati<\/span><span style=\"color: #003366\">on from the <\/span><span style=\"color: #003366\">Timo&#8217;s experiences of being a long term member of the spiritual community on the island. 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