http://www.wiseattention.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tftd160914.mp3 The celebrations of Roald Dahl Day show that his wonderful and highly moral books are as fresh as ever. What does child’s-eye morality mean for adults? Yesterday, I took my son...
http://www.wiseattention.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tftd160907.mp3 Setting alight a replica of London in 1666 to commemorate the Great Fire of London was a stirring evocation of impermanence I wish I’d been at the Tate Modern on Sunday night when a 120 metre...
I once spent a month in a monastery in the mountains of Bhutan. It sounds romantic, and the pristine beauty lived up to the image. When I left a mule driver came to take my belongings and watched bemused as I tried to attach my refuse bags to the animal. The mule...
Here in Wales, we’re simultaneously mourning the Football team’s exit from Euro 2016 and celebrating their achievements. How the Buddha’s teachings help us manage life’s ups and downs? Weekend Word, 16.07.08 ‘Gutted but proud’. That’s been the...
On Buddha Day Buddhists ask what the Buddha means today, so long after his death. Is he an historical figure or an eternal principle? Thought for the Day 21.6. 2016 hen Gautama, the man history knows as The Buddha, died two-and-a-half thousand years ago his followers...
As British seven year-olds take national tests, what does Buddhism have to say about the ethical core of education? Friday is my son’s seventh birthday, and after the cards and presents he’ll go off to school where like thousands of other children, he’ll be sitting...
