Category Archives: Metta

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Beautiful Buddhist Quotes

 

The unhealed, disowned aspects of our shadow aspects are trying desperately to win over our attention. Unexpressed feelings never die, they are buried alive and resurface in uglier ways (when triggered). Seek them out and transform them (with love and […]

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Blog post: the felt presence of a direct experience

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Bellow is my experience of being a Buddhist; the things I’ve felt, the difficulties, highs, lows and teachings I’ve found useful along my journey…

As I sat on the pillow in my first meditation class I found it impossible to keep my […]

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Making of a Wheel of Life

A short movie of the ‘WHEEL OF LIFE’ from our most recent course. Always a pleasure.  
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Local communities day retreat – 2016

Another wonderful Day retreat as well as the privellege of witnessing three individuals’ Silvia; Aydan and Jack, going for refuge to the three jewels. The Buddha jewel (enlightenment), the Dharma (the teaching to enlightenment) and the Sangha (the community of […]

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Journey and the Guide – week 4

 
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Ikkyū’s Motto

 
The import of Ikkyū’s motto is that anyone can be saintly in refined conditions, but the real challenge is to achieve enlightenment in the midst of the world’s suffering, greed and hatred.
Ikkyu (1394-1481) was renowned for pointing out the hypocrisy […]

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A Haiku

 
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Meaning

The worldly winds number eight or four pairs; gain and loss; praise and blame; pleasure and pain;fame and infamy.    
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Wheel of life – in brief

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What liberation isn’t.

 
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