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In the gap between teachings, I took a trip up into the Himalayan foothills to the little settlement of Namo Buddha. This was the spot that the Buddha’s earlier reincarnation offered up his body to feed a starving tigress and her five cubs. There’s now a big monastery founded by the late Thrangul Rinpoche, one of the Karmapa’s teachers. I’m not also a natural at pilgrimage sites, but this one really moved me. The thought of that bodhicitta activity and the fact that historical Buddha, Siddharta Gotama, often came back to this hill to teach. The forests surrounding the Tiger’sDen are thick with prayer flags and pictures of departed loved ones. It’s a very moving place.

We had a good discussion in our last Thursday morning session before my trip to Nepal, which also brought to a close the cycle of teaching on vipassana-shamata: https://share.descript.com/view/vgJFxv1eSdV

I’m new to meditation although it’s something I’ve thought about for a while…I’m glad I made the first step.

Teri asked a question on Monday which chimed with my thinking about what meditation permits. Worth a listen: https://share.descript.com/view/U65ycpFJlj1

Life Skills Let’s give our next generation the Life skills we need that we don’t learn at school. The difference between an Opinion and Fact. The emotions we feel and how you control and understand them. Relationships and how to maintain good ones. Self-belief and building resilience. Acceptance of what is - but not seeing it as a block to what it can be. Allowing grief to follow its natural journey whatever the type of loss. Following your passions in the path of your career in life not the route others think you should follow. Always have ambition to do well in Life but not rebuffing ourselves if we don’t reach our goals And finally, most importantly, learn and experience the benefit of immersing yourself in Nature. Away from electronic equipment. Be it by the sea, in the forest, by a river, or up a mountain. As the old saying goes - this is not a rehearsal-Live your life to the full. Respect others -and live in harmony with one another Angela Winbolt

Lovely music - made me think of our chanting sessions and yesterday’s session. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/V4YNBUXam7xzHUxy/?mibextid=WC7FNe

I wasn't able to record our session which I led from a service station on the A12 near Colchester last night. But we did have a good discussion about grief prompted by a question from Margaret. I re-recorded an audio version of my answer below: https://share.descript.com/view/LJeRsVFOlgo

This is an excerpt from our Thursday teaching, emphasising the Buddhist emphasis on recognising how we fundamentally misperceive reality. First, we only partially perceive and then we hazily generalise by conceptualizing. https://share.descript.com/view/Za1S2xSEBL2