Here’s something for your Friday afternoon to take you into your weekend with a gentle smile. It’s a charming unbridled tale about a ‘typical, institutionalized educated Western man’ that touches something quite deep within all of us. Well worth a look, enjoy. A film by Josh Izenberg. Video from KarmaTube This film was first shown …
An erudite and poignant article by Dr Grace Damman on the re-evaluation of her understanding of compassion following a near fatal car accident in 2008. Dr Damman is a long time resident of Green Gulch Farm (part of the San Francisco Zen Centre) and was honoured by the Dalai Lama at the 2009 “Unsung Heroes …
This article appeared in the Irish Times the other day and I enjoyed it so much I decided to repost here, with a link to the book that the author, Dr Tony Bates, refers to in his piece. I hope you enjoy the article as much as I did. My phone alarm woke me with …
The clutter of our lives binds us to the precious simplicity that surrounds us and within us. Too often we become possessed and imprisoned by the chains of our own accumulations. We live in fear of their loss; we evolve complex strategies to protect ourselves from failure and deprivation. This burden inhibits our ability to …