We recently completed a wonderful retreat at Wangapeka. Over the two weeks we explored the possibility of awakening practice that is open and innovative, and immediately accessible. Each morning I would give a class and then people spent the rest of the day according to their needs and interests, exploring the morning's themes and experimenting … Continue reading New Booklet and Audio Recording
Recently we have had the opportunity to extend our thanks to many of the people who have supported us in various ways over the years. We thought to post this on GDT as a way of sharing the merit. Bouquet #1 Dear friends on the pathHere is a little news and a big bouquet of … Continue reading Bouquets of Gratitude
In the beginningless, endless holomoving, – process congealing as form, and form resolving as process – mystery emerged, sperming and egging fused, thus, he-to-be, or should we say, be-to-he, and she; mother-ness and son-ness entwined, found themselves dancing their living ways unfolding into they knew not what or where. Later, he took clues from otherness … Continue reading This Dancing of Living
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
Returning from a very full month of teaching and dharma exploration in Brazil we are delighted to announce some new publications in both English and Portuguese. In NZ we have refined and extended, "Foundations of Mindfulness: A Manual for Meditators". This is now available in book form where it joins "Walking in Wisdom" and "Breathing: … Continue reading Foundations of Mindfulness and Brazilian Blessings
Dear Trustees of Oxfam NZ My partner, Mary Jenkins and I have been regular contributors to Oxfam for many years. We, like many others, have been disturbed by the revelations in the Guardian concerning misconduct and poor management in Haiti, Chad and now other places. These examples of exploitation, by representatives of an organisation dedicated … Continue reading An Open Letter to Oxfam
Immense Gratitude and Thanks For A Wonderful Response to the Orgyen Care Project Dear Friends About three weeks ago, e-mails were sent out announcing the Orgyen Care Project and asking for support. For those of you who may not have heard about it, the O.C.P. was conceived by Andy MacIntosh, and Grant and Natasha Rix, … Continue reading Orgyen Care Project Thanks
Dear Friends on the Path of Dharma If we look deeply around us, we will find ourselves to be living parts of a cresting wave of an ocean of life-unfolding, a world awakening, a mystery embodying. We have been blessed with friendships, and myriad opportunities to cultivate skills in compassion, attentiveness and deepening understanding. We … Continue reading Wholesome Activity – Keep It In The Ground
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
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
