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Family Love

25 Tuesday Dec 2012

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Christmas, Families, Parenting, Syria, War

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Over these last few days I’ve felt the world’s heart beat… Sometimes I find myself reflecting on those negative aspect …

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Fight fire with fire or Fight guns with intelligence?

22 Saturday Dec 2012

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Families, Gandhi, Guns, NRA, Parenting, Politics, Sandy Hook, Shakespeare

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“Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; threaten the threatener and outface the brow of bragging horror” – …

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An Excercise in Mindfullness

21 Friday Dec 2012

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Buddhism, Fear, Greed, Impermanence, Maslow, Mindfullness

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I hear the words chime in my mind ‘Opportunity favours the prepared mind’. Is my mind prepared and how is …

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The Middle Way and Banking Ethics

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

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Banking, Buddhism, Business, Ethics, Middle way

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The Buddhist way, if it is anything, is about not accommodating the extremes or excesses that life has to offer. For …

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Thoughts on Human Existence…

16 Sunday Dec 2012

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Buddhism, Cosmos, Death, Entropy, Karma, Science

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I saw a dead person yesterday as part of a volunteer opportunity that I undertake in a local hospice. My …

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Wisdom Child on Father Christmas

14 Friday Dec 2012

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Buddhism, Families, Father Christmas, Parenting, Santa, Wisdom Child

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“May you always see the lights of wisdom around you. But, maybe, dwell a while in the magic of existence …

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On being a Road Worrior…

13 Thursday Dec 2012

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Buddhism, Car Rage, Ego

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“Your speediness will be rewarded in the next life” – Simpsons.  I know exactly the way I should react in …

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Millions starving in Aleppo…

13 Thursday Dec 2012

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Aleppo, Ananda, Buddhism, Syria, Women

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I don’t normally these days notice much in the papers that takes my breath away. However the Times leader “Millions …

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Dealing with difficult people

11 Tuesday Dec 2012

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Ajahn Chah, Anger, Buddhism, Difficult People, Stress

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Ajahn Chah – “Everything experienced with a peaceful mind confers greater understanding. No longer do we create proliferating interpretation about …

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