Dharma Glimpse by Beth Hickey In the distance is a silhouette of the Cretan mountains behind the twinkling lights of the little town below as the sun fades for the day. In my minds eye I also see the Malvern Hills silhouetted behind the twinkly lights of the little houses that hug the hills I […]
A Dharma Glimpse by Fi Curnow The other weekend, I got myself some new garden furniture. Well, when I say new, I mean new to me. It was very second hand and cheap off Facebook Marketplace. Getting it home, though, and setting up the four chairs and one table in my tiny back yard filled
Dharma Glimpse by Kaspa This morning I have to send a new Chromebook back. We bought it to run Zoom practice sessions on and the network card isn’t good enough. I’ve been anticipating this with lots of resentment. It took a long time to set up the Chromebook when it arrived (in retrospect, because the
A Dharma Glimpse by Aidan Last week, I unexpectedly reconnected with an old friend with whom I had once been very close but fell out with five long years ago. We had made apologies for what happened and spoken on and off since then, but my anxieties, my clinging to old memories and fears, held
Dharma Glimpse by Dayamay Dunsby Aine, the new Temple dog, joined us for walking meditation in the garden on Saturday. And as we were slowly shuffling round amongst the flowers and shrubs in the gentle rain, she found an old newspaper that she liked the look and smell of. It was already wet and as
Dharma Glimpse by Paul Riley I get the bus to work each morning and pass through some of the most impoverished parts of Liverpool. The buildings are falling down. People look beat. Crime, addiction and deprivation are everywhere. The place I’m heading to – Liverpool prison – is a condensed microcosm of this pain and
Dharma Glimpse by Kim Allard When I was young I asked my Dad if prayers work. He replied that they might but they weren’t like a gum ball machine where you put something in and get something out. Today I would reply “maybe.” As I turn to Amitabha in meditation, gratitude and times of difficulty
Kaspa has written an article/Dharma Glimpse for the XR Buddhists website based on his dharma talk from last night’s practice session. How can we welcome all of our reactions to the climate crisis, and move towards compassionate action without expectation of results? Read it here: Hope and Hopelessness in the Face of the Climate Crisis
Dharma Glimpse by Satya Robyn Yesterday Kaspa and I were tired after a long week, but I’d got it into my head that we could improve our bedroom, which I’ve always hated, by rearranging the furniture. It’s a small room and so the options were pretty limited, but after few hours of lugging furniture around, a
Dharma Glimpse by Maria ChumakAs an opening I’m going to confess of being pescatarian – so I have relinquished eating any meat but I do eat fish. We all have something to work on! On our recent holiday Steve and I went to a seaside town Barmouth in Wales. There’s apparently quite a few seafood
