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Responsibility and free will
“The only consistent thing about people is their bodies. And because our bodies stay the same, most of us are content to assume that our minds do, too – that we go on being the selves we were, even when we do today the exact opposite of what we did yesterday. When the question of [...]
Some reflections on Taya life (II)
“Buddhist practice is 99% cleaning” ~ Jishin funny, this thing we like to call our “self”. before moving into taya, i had always thought i was a pretty laid back, easy-going guy. several of my friends had told me as much, some even to the point of saying too much so. and i was happy [...]
Some reflections on Taya Life (I)
Towards the end of February, i moved down to London to live in one of the Taya houses attached to the temple Kyoshin, Jishin, Matthew and myself attend. i’ve written elsewhere about the meaning of Taya, but to recap briefly – Taya is a place where nembutsu-sha come together and encounter one another, day by [...]
In Search of the Miraculous
this is an old post i did over at Blathering Nonsense which i thought i’d edit slightly and share here – Jon those who know me well, at one time or another will have been subjected to my fanatical raving about the life and works of Bas Jan Ader. i first came across him while [...]
the words that tell us we are whole
when i was at university i read a book by Douglas Coupland – Life after God – a series of small vignettes with a loose narrative thread through them about a group of twenty-somethings trying to connect to a sense of the sacred in a society which has all but engulfed such a sense, replacing it [...]
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