I am a paid up member of the Church of the Gym.
When home, I go to church two or three times a week in the Totnes Pavilion (Devon, England).
It is harder lifting the weights up to heaven than lowering down to Earth.
I cycle on my bike with my MP3 player to church.
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Twenty Songs towards Love and Liberation Read More »
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What is Meditation? Read More »
I recall more than 30 years ago asking Gaia House, the much loved meditation centre, a few miles north of Totnes, south Devon, England, to display only beautiful plants and flowers in the front of the meditation hall rather than a Buddha image. Trustees and co-Dharma teachers kindly agreed. I also requested that we name the meditation centre as Gaia House. Gaia, a Greek goddess, means ‘Living Earth’ and, coincidentally, has the same pronunciation as (Bodh) Gaya, the place of the Buddha’s awakening. Co-teachers and trustees also kindly agreed to this proposal. …
Secular Buddhism. – Has a new Buddhist sect been formed in the West?Read More »
Secular Buddhism. – Has a new Buddhist sect been formed in the West? Read More »
Dear Readers,
Here are four questions leading into 80 questions to encourage an exploration of our phenomenal existence. We waste our life if we sleep walk through it. Let us exercise the quiet inner power of consciousness to inquire into our relationship to this field of human being and human activity. If you wish, read through the 80 questions. There is no single answer to any question. The genuine answer makes a real difference to your life. …
84 Questions to last a Lifetime Read More »
A Totnes friend, Rob Brown, kindly gave to me a truly remarkable compact book, Mirror to the Light: Reflections on Consciousness and Experience by Lewis Thompson, an Englishman from Fulham, London, who died aged 40 in the scorching summer heat of Varanasi, India in 1949. …
