Dharma Glimpse by Luna I’ve been wandering & exploring for the past four years, since fleeing to Australia after a very long PhD. My spiritual connection has deepened through many practices & experiences during this time, & I feel like I’ve been on a long pilgrimage to come home to myself.In the past few months, […]
Dharma Glimpse by Paramita I recently had to leave a job, as a combination of problems with it were making me ill, and so I did it quite suddenly and without securing anything else to fall back on. I couldn’t afford to have too much time off and so, I started making job applications and
A Dharma Glimpse by Mat Osmond This is a glimpse that arrived in two halves. The first half came a few weeks ago as I was giving my daughter Zoe a driving lesson. We had the Sat Nav on, but for some reason we kept turning aside from the route it offered back to where
Dharma Glimpse by Kusuma As part of a multi-faith open day I recently visited a children’s hospice for the first time in a number of years. There is a heavy price to pay for working in a palliative care environment with Compassion Fatigue a major contributing factor in staff being off sick or leaving the
Dharma Glimpse by Frankie This isn’t a meditation on death and my preparedness or otherwise for it, but about the lessons I am taught as I go about my every day mundane life. Shopping! I do a lot of my shopping on Amazon. Yes I know for many people this is objectionable but perhaps those
By Elizabeth Some of you know that my daughter was found to have a shopping addiction this year, with its attendant lying, stealing and gaslighting. It was an effort to get over the shock and disbelief at first and then how to practice? It took time and hence my gratitude for the Dharma seal of
Dharma Glimpse by Paramita Last weekend I missed out on the Bright Earth Pureland Buddhist Convention, which was held in my hometown and hosted by my home Temple.It was not my fault and neither can I blame anybody else for this unfortunate state of affairs.I suffer with Fibromyalgia, which is classed as a “chronic illness”
Glimpse by Philip Wallbridge I’ve learnt sometimes things fall apart in life. It happened to me recently. Things built up I couldn’t let go of or process, so there was an inevitable falling apart. A few days later, as I was piecing myself back together, I was walking towards the Malvern hills. I was more
(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 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
