(23 Oct 2023) By Bobby Ahlander So far this year I have experienced the death of three people that were fully integrated into my life in one way or another. In March, my dad passed away from natural causes, just one day shy of his 80th birthday. In April, one of my closest friends died […]
A Dharma Glimpse by Philip I recently returned to live in Malvern. I’m temporarily staying at the temple, where I lived for a year not so long ago, while I find myself somewhere more permanent nearby. The hills have always had something special for me. I used to come here by bus and train when
A few weeks ago, my oven broke. It came with the house where I have lived for seven and a half years now. The oven had been here much longer. And it had chugged along well enough for that time. I don’t know what the little gold knobs were supposed to do, one was a
Dharma Glimpse by Frankie Serendipity – by definition good luck; coincidence; fortuity. I also define it in my own loose way as a coming together, a falling into place.In the last week I had been thinking about a question posed in a book by secular Buddhists Stephen and Martine Batchelor – What is This? It’s
By Maria Trotter The other day I was on the phone to my mum and we touched upon the topics of gender identity. In particular, I was trying to explain the concept of non-binary to her. There was a lot of cross-cultural work going on of course – my mum was born and grew up
