Kye, my nine-year-old grandson and I, arrived home on Monday night after the 10th annual French Dharma Yatra conducted in the foothills of the Pyrenees, not far from Limoux. We dumped our tents, backpacks and daypacks on the floor at home, cooked up a bit of food. Kye took a long soak in the bath and slept for around 12 hours. …
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A beautiful Israeli friend, artist and dedicated to Buddhist meditation, invited me to pick some inspirational songs as she recently had started work as a DJ on a radio station. I looked through my CDs and made a list to send to her. …
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Dreams confirm the wonder and mystery of phenomenal existence, a statement the emergence of the unintended, the unthought out. Dreams crystallize in consciousness with exceptional possibility for insight and understanding of our waking state. …
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I attended this month for the sixth year at the kind invitation of Triratna, formerly known as the FWBO – Friends of the Western Buddhist Order – in its past life, the annual Buddhafield Festival, held near Taunton, 80 minutes up the railway line from Totnes in south Devon, England. Around 2500 adults and children attend the festival. …
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This month, the French National Assembly has passed a vote by 335 votes for and one against to ban the burqa, the black veil used to cover the face by a small number of women in the country’s Muslim community. The Upper Chamber in France will take the final vote in September. …
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