Date last updated 5:11 pm June 24th, 2010
Taraniya has spent many years of practice in the British monasteries in the Ajahn Chah lineage. She spoke to us of the Buddha’s wisdom in creating what is known as the “four-fold sangha”; that is laymen and women practitioners and monastic men and women practitioners in interdependent relationship.
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Date last updated 5:50 pm February 23rd, 2010
Wise Intention is the second path factor of the Eightfold Path, which is the 4th Noble Truth, the Truth which is to be cultivated.
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Date last updated 10:16 am January 28th, 2010
A friend, who had been involved in relief work in Haiti this past summer, wrote that he was one who believes that small actions matter in light of the large sufferings of this world.
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Date last updated 9:36 am December 22nd, 2009
On my wall calendar’s page for December, under the photograph of the snow covered wolf, is a quote from John Muir:
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
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Date last updated 10:28 am October 26th, 2009
A number of people have suggested we include in the newsletter a copy of this recent article I wrote for the Valley news on caring for my mother. I’ll lead into it below with a section that was cut from the published version.
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