This post is dedicated to the Australian fire fighters, medical responders, comforters, supporters and helpers – bodhisattvas of all kinds – who are courageously rising to the occasion, regardless of risk, to help and succour beings in need. I realise that many of you are far too engaged with immediate necessities to find these mere … Continue reading Fire and Living Dharma
A central meaning of 'tantra' is wholeness/continuity. Tantra is a path of wholeness understanding wholeness, a vision integrating all visions. In the ancient cultures of Tibet, India, parts of southeast Asia and China, there flourished various wisdom traditions known as tantra. Today, tantra is sometimes associated with attempted mergings of spirituality and sex, but originally … Continue reading Tantra and Climate Change
To read the fully formatted PDF version, please click here. These verses are a recent arising, but they hint at contemplations that have flavoured my living for many years. As you explore with them, can you sense in the flow of your own experience, a quality of spacious hovering – scuba divers might equate this … Continue reading Mandala Offering in a Modern Key
1/9/18 Contemplating the awesomeness of surrendering into living. Life is a terminal condition. All living creatures die – 100% of them. I am living with metastatic cancer. In a week or so, I may have surgery to remove a cancerous left common iliac lymph node. There are no statistics to say that such a procedure … Continue reading Notes From The Cancer Ward
Perhaps David Abrams approached it when he referred to the process of dying as “expanding into the wider life of the planet”. Perhaps Alexander Skutch was near to it when he wrote, “An outstanding attribute of an awakened spirit is its expansiveness, its insatiable hunger to experience more widely, to know more broadly and profoundly, … Continue reading The Art of Contemplative Science: Praise for “The Songs of Trees”
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
Oct 5/11 Simpson Desert Australia, 5:30am Reflections on Knowing, Mind and Wonderment With thanks to Sue and John for taking us there. by Tarchin Hearn I’m sitting on the red earth gazing into mystery, camp mat folded under me, morning coffee steaming by my side. In front is a young acacia bush. Its roots are … Continue reading Reflections on Knowing, Mind and Wonderment
Praise for 'A Human Being Died That Night' by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Mariner Books, 2004, ISBN 0-618-44659-1 Some books are much more than pages and print. Engulfing and disturbingly engaging, they slip into hidden crannies of one's being, places forgotten, or ignored or more often simply overlooked in the ongoing business of living. We find ourselves … Continue reading Praise for, 'A Human Being Died That Night' by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Green Dharma Treasury 