Chatting online? This is something that honestly bores me because it’s so superficial. The very name of this fashionable activity irks me: ‘chat’ in its original medieval meaning is ‘idle gossip’ (chateren). Interestingly, in Hindi chatt means parasite and soldiers in the Napoleonic wars referred to lice as chats. A World War II hero, my father often used ‘chatty’ to mean itchy or time for a bath.
What is it that gives me such hope about British films? After watching endless protracted dramas and crime films made in the US, one becomes jaded, almost immune
The Earth’s breath becomes part of the body when it is entering you and leaving you, but when it turns from down to up and up to down then it is no-body, no-mind.
Slap bang in the centre of this moment and in no place in particular, can you accept that there is nothing you have to do except be, and
Atisha’s ‘7 Points of Mind Training’ are not philosophy or religion They are pure science, so please experiment for yourself.
Remember, all life is sheer energy constantly moving, like a fast-running mountain stream. You cannot hold on to anything except the fast-running spirit enveloping us. Step in the stream and feel the flow. This is your liberation!
True nature? I hope you are curious about this phrase. Does it mean that you are doing something that offends others but you cannot control it? That something etched into
The world of words demands that we churn out concepts and assertions mindlessly. Each word creates an image in our visual libraries and memory banks. The bridge of the mind leading out to the vast field of consciousness is so cluttered with verbiage and images that we are stranded there. We are blocked in.
Monk of the World “They have always told me that the first time is the worst, so I should cultivate fear before I jump or enter the freezing torrent
The erotic burns images into our soul. Or does it simply mirror them?
