A Dharma Glimpse by Izzy Ellis I woke up one spring morning and as I left the temple to get to an early shift, I found my car window had been smashed in the night. The stone that was usually used to weigh down the lid of the bin, to stop the lid blowing open […]
A Dharma Glimpse by Angie Pell-Walpole As I was preparing to leave for an appointment earlier today my scarf caught on a hook. As usual I was on the edge of running late and my initial reaction was to tug the scarf away, but the threads were strong and didn’t snap, they only pulled tighter
A Dharma Glimpse by Beth Hickey Worm therapy Who made the worm? Why make a worm? Gendering is not an issue. When I first decided to start a compost I knew nothing about worms. In fact for the first few months they stayed well clear of my bin. Do you know that in an acre
Dharma Glimpse by Philip Wallbridge I haven’t shared a Dharma Glimpse for a while. It’s been on my mind for over a month now, along with a sense of guilt and uncomfortability. I have been busy with a university assignment which I handed in a couple of weeks ago so I have had a bit more
Dharma Glimpse by Beth Hickey Today I sneezed three times in a row and I knew it had began! I had not long returned from a walk in the woods with the dasies, kicking fallen leaves, examining strange and bizarre fungi and generally feeling the wildlife and landscape slowly closing down. More leaves below than
A Dharma Glimpse by Dayamay Dunsby I had been feeling frustrated with myself recently after a perceived failure on my part to master certain behaviours that can be destructive. The tendency, for me, is to aim high and overwhelm myself with great expectations about becoming pure and perfect. Even though I know in my bones
Dharma glimpse by Helen Dakers Over the last two years my family life has evolved and I have reached the stage where I am now the mother to a teenager and the daughter of an elderly parent. A member of the Sandwich Generation as I have discovered this is called. These roles have posed an
Dharma Glimpse by Maria Trotter Steve (my husband) and I went away to Snowdonia for a few days last week. The weather unexpectedly dried up and we braved to go hiking up Snowdon itself. After about halfway up Steve got worried about his poorly back and stayed behind, while I carried on a bit further
Dharma Glimpse by Katie Bow I was on the train back from work in London. It had been a long, hard day, well in fact a long hard few weeks. I was desperately trying to get something sorted to meet an urgent deadline by working with my laptop purchased on the pull-down table on the
Dharma Glimpse by Frankie Carboni One of my perpetual struggles is with posture during sitting meditation. Zen has very precise and detailed instructions about sitting posture that come from the Japanese monastic tradition and while they aren’t meant to create an endurance test of sitting, that’s exactly how it can sometimes feel. I can still
