Scent of the Divine
What can we learn from those deprived of fully or normally functioning senses about accessing other ways of being? How can we avoid the domination of visual processing, the consequent […]
the divine spark
Kukai, Master Kobo, Mindfulness, no separation, Oneness, The flow of pure love energy, True Nature
The Human Papers: an extract
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
Mindfulness, move away from the flames of human emotions, no separation, the Permanence of sound, True Nature, Visible - Invisible
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‘There is a room around this song.’ Shocked, she wondered who thought of that? She asked who put this room in this library of other rooms to hold all the
Bodhi Mind, Breathing as one, Interfaith, Japanese Buddhism dialogue, Karma and Buddha Nature, Mindfulness, no separation, The Cathars: The Church of Love, The flow of pure love energy, True Nature, Veil of Death, Visible - Invisible
Forward to my new book: Glorious Death: Glorious Life
Glorious Death? Human beings are curious of and frightened by their own death and the death of others they love. Death is taboo to most of us, and it is understandable that the complete unknown is terrifying so we evade it, clinging to what we know even more tightly.
duality, The flow of pure love energy, True Nature
Temple Chronicle: 28th February
We are love and compassion: They are our native states. But our fear and delusions make them into objects, separating us away from them so that an object of this ‘thing’ love is required.
Breathing as one, detachment, The Truth, True Nature
Temple Chronicle: 22nd February
The tiny hummingbird moves around so quickly and quietly that it is almost impossible to detect. It takes the pollen it needs from the bells of tropical flowers and then moves on its way unnoticed. It does not disturb anyone or anything. This is how we should live.
attachment, detachment, Indigenous wisdom, Mindfulness, move away from the flames of human emotions
Temple Chronicle: 15th February
Hindu deities are fashioned out of mud exactly so that there is no danger of them or the spirits behind them becoming permanent. Tibetan Buddhists make the most exquisite mandalas
Bodhi, Mindfulness, Oneness, Peace, True Nature, Visitor's Articles
Courtesy of Gilles Asselin: wisdom from the Hebrew divinities
Stilling the Mental Body The Mighty Elohim Speaks on the Seven Steps of Perception, p 36 The mental body is two-fold. It is the receptive consciousness into which the Pattern
Bodhi, Japanese Rituals, Meditation, Mindfulness, Oneness, Peace, True Nature
Temple Chronicle: 5th February
The objective of all Buddhist training, of any spiritual training, is to first become a better, happier person, and then to look after other sentient beings, developing unwavering respect
Bodhi, Mindfulness, Oneness, True Nature
Temple Chronicle: February 3rd
Those who follow. Those who are followed. Followers or leaders, there need be no division. What prevents us from taking the first step to being different from the conformists surrounding