The violence in the Middle East and the ongoing refugee wave, with displaced people outpouring from Syria and other Arab countries, is a strong call to create Mindfulness meditations in Arabic. …
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A few years ago, a social survey in the UK asked people: “What is your biggest fear?”
The majority answered “Public Speaking.”
Their second biggest fear was “Death.”
In other words, the British public regard public speaking as a fate worse than death. …
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I remember listening to a senior Buddhist monk giving a talk. He spoke for about an hour. His talk seemed to lack focus and appeared disjointed. I gently told him later he could consider preparing his talk by writing notes to establish a theme. He said his tradition did not use notes. …
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Dear Readers,
I received this email on a documentary in progress on the life of the first Western Buddhist monk, a rather wild Irishman, named U Dhammaloka (Dharma of the World). The Buddhist tradition has always attracted its fair share of Western and Asian eccentrics who ordained as monks and nuns. …
The Irish hobo (1856 – 1914) who became the first Buddhist monk from the WestRead More »
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Meditation Teaching in Australia. October 31 – November 18, 2015Read More »
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