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Ten Songs out of this World. Including insightful lyrics.

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I felt mentally tired on the train from London Paddington to Totnes after full-on teachings/travel in Germany for 18 days. Out of the daypack, I dug out my mobile phone, earphones and played around 10 rock songs listening to insightful lyrics, on Spotify. …

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Ten Questions on Causation for Reflection and Meditation to support Wise Action

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We often live in the spell of cause and effect as if the cause had an independent existence not related to anything else.

Let us explore our typical ways of viewing in cause-and-effect terms to reveal the limits of any view. Dogma consists of grasping onto a view, making it a fixation in the mind, without realising the limits of the view. …

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TEN YEARS AND TEN DAYS. A 528-page Memoir. Christopher Titmuss. Life for six years as a Buddhist monk. One circle of the Earth.

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I wrote a Memoir of my years overseas between 1967-1977. My mother (1920-2015) kept encouraging me to write the book. She kept the 427 letters and aerogrammes I posted home.
I promised her faithfully I would hand her three or four chapters before she died. I kept the promise. During the lockdown in 2020 and early 2021, I took the opportunity to write the other 80 chapters completing the book in Spring 2021.
The book recalls firsthand experiences includes Buddhist practices, insights and depths of teachings found in the East.

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How to take Lateral Flow Test for Covid. Some useful instructions

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I decided to take a lateral flow test for Covid. I have no symptoms of Covid but wish to familiarise myself with the process as I start to travel more. I asked a person in the hospitality industry who takes a lateral flow test twice a week. The person kindly gave a basic guidance of the general sequence of the process from start to finish.

In the UK, you go to your local pharmacist, complete a form on your mobile phone, and you will receive a blue package for seven tests. The box contains detailed instructions and there is also an online video available.

The guide below for the flow test might serve as an additional support. Please note it is not a professional list of instructions.

Useful Points for Lateral Flow Test

  1. Empty fluid with cap to twist into test-tube.
  2. Place test tube in the hold in the packaging.
  3. Use mobile phone torch to see back of throat.
  4. Take swab to membranes on both sides of the throat.
  5. Use swab and move slowly up one nostril until you reach point of no further.
  6. Take eight seconds for all three areas and keep turning swab in all three areas.
  7. Turn swab all the time. Rotate swab around the nostril several times.
  8. Mix swab with fluid in test tube for 15 seconds.
  9. Secure the dripper lid of test tube.
  10. Place two drops of fluid from test tube into the hole marked S on test strip.
  11. Remember you need to invert and squeeze the two drops.
  12. Make sure the test strip is placed flat.
  13. The test is complete after 30 mins.
  14. A line at C confirms the test is valid. A second line at T means you are Covid-19 positive.
  15. If tested positive, self-isolate for 10 days to protect others.
  16. Advise your clinic/physician.

Be Mindful. Covid is still highly infectious whether you have had both jabs, one jab or neither.

STAY WELL.

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Can an individual transcend suffering while surrounded by collective suffering? One of the questions from a meditator.

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Around 90 participants joined all or part of four days of Dharma teachings/practices in the Australian time zone between 24-28 September 2021 with Samantha from Melbourne and myself.

Meditators had the opportunity to ask questions either directly on Zoom, via the Zoom Chat column or by writing us an email. …

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