We are living in extraordinary times. Our understanding of life as a planet-wide, delicate, yet creatively responsive phenomena, is becoming clearer than ever, while at the same time, we humans seem to marching, robot fashion, into an authoritarian form of money driven governance that makes the novels of Brave New World and 1984 seem almost … Continue reading Sufficient Love To See
Dear Friends Last night, at midnight NZ time June 11 or noon UK time, a friend, colleague and teacher, Sonia Moriceau, let go into the wider life of the planet. I will remember her smile and the mindful way she moved. I will remember that day at Wangapeka during the School of Living Dharma, the … Continue reading Remembering Sonia Moriceau, Ad Brugman and All Beings
A Buddhist Understanding of Prayer by Tarchin Hearn This essay was originally written in 2006 at the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre. It has been edited and re-formatted for Green Dharma Treasury. I often receive requests for prayers. Please pray for someone. Please hold someone in your prayers. To tell you the truth, the more … Continue reading A Buddhist Understanding of Prayer
Metaphor – a poem by Tarchin Hearn The inner tangle and the outer tangle, This generation is entangled in a tangle, So pray, Gautama, Who can untangle this tangle? (The Vissudhimagga) Metaphor and meaning are slippery subjects, and so too is money. Money is a currency for exchanging objects. It is countable, measurable, gross and … Continue reading Metaphor
I pray to the wetlands, I pray to the deserts, Include me in your embrace. I pray to the rainforests, to the grasslands, to the tundra and the boreal forests, Bless our families with health, curiosity, and great compassion. I pray to the coral reefs, to the tidal fringes, to estuaries, deltas, benthic depths and … Continue reading A Circle of Blessing
Namgyal Lineage or Walking On In Freedom by Tarchin Hearn It has been nearly 10 years since the body of Namgyal Rinpoché dissolved into the wider life of the planet. His dying spurred many of his students to begin teaching and to share their understandings of dharma. Throughout this time, I have been asked by … Continue reading Namgyal Lineage or Walking On In Freedom
Introduction The call to live a meaningful and well integrated life is present in all of us. Too often though, it is eclipsed, covered over by a huge array of compulsive needs and desires that arise from the way our society envisions, educates and organizes itself. The situation many people find themselves in today can … Continue reading Six Contemplations for Entering the Path of Living Dharma
Early morning sheen of blue grey greens, luminous, still. You are sitting, broadening into the welcome of day. It has rained through the night. Wet and warm, your body softens and spreads in the slow chant of crickets. The unhurried single repetition of a waking thrush. The densifying tapestry of feathered voices and releasing muscles, … Continue reading Morning Puja
Prayer of Heartfelt Aspiration – intimations of view, meditation and action – a versified essay by Tarchin Hearn, 2012 Preamble: Evening breeze is scattering white scud cross the tops of winter waves. Shadows lengthen gulls swoop and glide and the smell of salt and tidal flats blends with light and air, tanging the nostrils, guiding … Continue reading Prayer of Heartfelt Aspiration – intimations of view, meditation and action –
With initial encouragement from Namgyal Rinpoché, I have reworked and rewritten a few of the more widely practiced sadhanas from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition in ways that link these great classic meditations with perspectives from deep ecology, biological sciences and imagery that is more universal in scope than some of the very traditional phrases and … Continue reading Classic Sadhanas from the Tibetan Tradition
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