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
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
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 –
Hints of Wisdom from Our Grandmother –– a dancing matrix of here and now –– by Tarchin Hearn I come from my mother And mother I be: forest, and sky, and thee. It is said that our long ago great grandmother Eve ate an apple from the tree of knowledge and that solitary act set … Continue reading Hints of Wisdom from Our Grandmother–– a dancing matrix of here and now ––
Truth, Power and Sharing the Merit by Tarchin Hearn How does the power of truth operate? How does truth as a factor of power work? How can its power, as power, be realized? – Vaclav Havel Let's begin by exploring the idea of power. The current New Zealand government is partially privatizing the power companies. … Continue reading Truth, Power and Sharing the Merit
by Tarchin Hearn (This essay was originally written and shared as an e-mail article in 2004. It has been slightly modified for Green Dharma Treasury) All of nature, in fact the entire living world, is a dance of continuous offering; one thing giving itself to another. Rain moistening ground and ground water evaporating and … Continue reading The Eight Offerings: a practice for cultivating flexibility and 'give'
How do we learn? How do we grow into mature, loving, wise, competent human beings? Does our vision of our place in the universe actually correspond to the biological realities that shape us? Do our religious and moral aspirations harmonize with our mechanical and energetic interactions with the rest of the world? Where do we … Continue reading Education and Buddhadharma
A weaving of prose and poetry. Story telling is not merely for entertainment. We are constantly telling ourselves stories, interior verbalizings, daydreamings, enactments and re-enactments of situations that have happened and ones that might happen. By and large, story telling is the way we humans make sense of relationships, the world and the universe we find ourselves in. Suffering arises in not seeing we are caught in a story of our own making. Suffering arises in not seeing our story is also the making of others. It also arises when we believe the story should be fixed for all time and we struggle to keep it so and to get others to keep it so. How many universes can dance in the story of your mind?
(If you would prefer to read this essay in a PDF format please click here) "In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To … Continue reading This Day is for Living
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