Communications

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. …

Desire gets in the way of making loveRead More »

I recall my teenage years working in the office of The Universe, a rather illustrious name for a Roman Catholic weekly newspaper in London’s Fleet Street – the home of the country’s major newspapers and news agencies at the time. Every few weeks,  a formidable man in the Roman Catholic world, Douglas Woodruff, a director of the newspaper and editor of The Tablet, a serious journal reflecting Catholic thought, would visit the office. …

Douglas Woodruff. Dry humour behind the humourless exteriorRead More »

My arrival in India got off to a slow start at New Delhi railway station on January 22, 2010. The Rajdhani Express from New Delhi to Gaya took 30 hours instead of 12 hours. I spent the night on the platform with my shawl as a mattress , a sleeping bag as a duvet and the edge of my small backpack (with laptop etc) as a pillow. …

Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, 2010 and two dramasRead More »

What will be the next big talking point in psychology and spirituality? …

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For 23 years Rom Houben, 46, was ­imprisoned in his own body. He saw his doctors and nurses as they visited him during their daily rounds; he listened to the conversations of his carers; he heard his mother deliver the news to him that his father had died. But he could do nothing. He was unable to communicate with his doctors or family. He could not move his head or weep, he could only listen. …

Belgium man in a “Coma” for 23 years meditated while trapped in bodyRead More »