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Feb 4, 20235 min read

The Magic of No Escape

Growing up in a Christian world (I was an Anglican choirboy for many of my most impressionable early years), my mind has been suffused...

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Nov 27, 20221 min read

Love / Czesław Miłosz

I've had Miłosz' Collected poems sitting on my shelf for decades and just fished that out this evening. He was writing this poem in the...

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Nov 3, 20216 min read

Sucitto Thoughts #1

Today is the birthday of one of my early Buddhist teachers, Ajahn Sucitto, who was the abbot of Cittaviveka monastery in East Sussex when...

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Mar 5, 20218 min read

Mother Nature doesn’t care about suffering. Buddha does.

I have been really deeply inspired by the experience of leading the Dharma Days for Mindsprings. After my initial introduction to the...

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Jan 14, 20216 min read

Language #3: Thinking and Language as the Bridge of Love

NOTE: I think in this last blog I am in some sense arguing myself OUT of a position that I have thoughtlessly held for many years. That...

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